Speaker 1: Hey, what up, fuckers. It's Christina Hutchinson and Karin Fisher
Speaker 1: and you're listening to guys, we fucked the anti slut
Speaker 1: shaming podcast. If you're wondering where you've been for the
Speaker 1: last year and a half, we are. We moved to
Speaker 1: the Luminary podcast network, but we wanted to release this
Speaker 1: episode widely today because this ship we're talking about today
Speaker 1: is fucking important. Okay, Luminary has a lot of wonderful
Speaker 1: exclusive shows, but today we want to amplify the voices
Speaker 1: of Luminaries wonderful black creators. So a couple of podcasts
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Speaker 1: Solidad O'Brien. Those are just a couple of there's obviously
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Speaker 1: All the resources um that we find going to be
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Speaker 1: on all feeds because we told them this episode had
Speaker 1: to be. I'm Karin Fisher, I'm Christina Hutchinson. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: what a week. What in the news for today's new
Speaker 1: as item? Oh my god. Yeah, we're gonna focus on
Speaker 1: We're gonna read. So we're gonna start this episode off
Speaker 1: by reading some emails from our black listeners. We had
Speaker 1: asked um if they had anything they wanted us to
Speaker 1: read or play on the podcast. UM we wanted to
Speaker 1: hear from them. First, right, and if you are like,
Speaker 1: what are they talking about, well, your eyes wake up. Uh.
Speaker 1: There have been three murders of black people in America
Speaker 1: in the past like a month and a half that
Speaker 1: are basically just slaughters to by the cops and one
Speaker 1: by people who just think that they run like one
Speaker 1: was an off duty cop. But like you know, there's
Speaker 1: these white people who think they are the lawmakers and
Speaker 1: law keepers and you're not. Yeah, you're racist. So yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: Two of these murders, Ahmad are Y and George Floyd
Speaker 1: are were captured on video, were horrific. Um. I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people of color obviously find those images
Speaker 1: and videos super triggering and rightly so uh traumatizing, but
Speaker 1: I highly, I highly recommend our white uh listeners watch
Speaker 1: those videos. Don't don't. I don't think you should share
Speaker 1: them because you don't know who's following you and who
Speaker 1: that's going to upset as far as people of color.
Speaker 1: But I really think it's important for you guys to
Speaker 1: watch them. And that's why I watched them, because it
Speaker 1: is a treatment that you probably just have never received
Speaker 1: in your white life from anyone, and certainly not the cops.
Speaker 1: I mean the cops. That will be a whole different
Speaker 1: segment that will get into later because Christine and I
Speaker 1: have now finally actually had some firsthand, real like crazy
Speaker 1: experiences viewing their brutality. But uh as has the count
Speaker 1: tree in the world. Um boy, oh boy, police, We
Speaker 1: got to rethink that. Yeah, so we wanted to read
Speaker 1: these stories because we see this kind of question and
Speaker 1: like talk online of you know, why is black lives
Speaker 1: matter important? You know important? Why should I be out protesting?
Speaker 1: What can I do? I'm not sure what to do?
Speaker 1: Lam la blah, help me. I can't google things like
Speaker 1: all lives matters, which will again we get into that later.
Speaker 1: I don't think they would, but they don't write bottle
Speaker 1: you know, just buckle up because this is important and
Speaker 1: certainly obviously Christine and I both white, we're not, uh
Speaker 1: you know, giving you a perfect lesson in how to exist.
Speaker 1: We've all made mistakes, We've all said ignorant things, but
Speaker 1: it's about growing and learning and like truly waking up,
Speaker 1: not being in quote woke, just being like, wow, I
Speaker 1: woke up because I didn't There are parts of this
Speaker 1: that I really truly didn't know. We're happening, and now
Speaker 1: that a lot of white people have finally um taken
Speaker 1: the time to not only listen to black voices, but
Speaker 1: also amplify them on their own platforms. You're like, wow,
Speaker 1: I got a really crazy amount of knowledge. And like
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, so and Kurt and I are always,
Speaker 1: you know, we're always encouraging everybody to educate themselves on issues.
Speaker 1: Don't take fact check everything I fucking say, do it.
Speaker 1: You should. Don't take anybody's word well, do your own
Speaker 1: research and listen to people. And in the past couple
Speaker 1: of days, crend and I've been together and you know,
Speaker 1: we're posting cred and I've been marching. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that a little later, but uh, you know, posting about
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter and resources, and you know we're gonna,
Speaker 1: let's it's time in this country. Let's give the number
Speaker 1: one focus to black issues in America and police brutality, Okay,
Speaker 1: And it's and it's been so um boy um responding
Speaker 1: to specifically the white girls, and it's it's not all
Speaker 1: like girls, I know, but responding to them. So there's
Speaker 1: to some of these stupid fucking as comments and it's
Speaker 1: so exhausting. And I was telling current earlier before we
Speaker 1: started recording. I'm like, is this one percent of what
Speaker 1: it's like to have to explain your trauma and pain
Speaker 1: and fucking existence to white people when you're black? Oh
Speaker 1: my god. Yeah. I mean even even when we did
Speaker 1: this call to action for um, the emails where you
Speaker 1: specifically asked for black stories from black people, while I
Speaker 1: was like, I don't want to hear a story about
Speaker 1: your black friend. I don't want to hear any of this.
Speaker 1: I want to hear from only black people and not.
Speaker 1: I was like, not people of color, not just black people.
Speaker 1: You get the front seat right now, and until you
Speaker 1: get a quality, I'm not fucking sure. We're not shutting
Speaker 1: the funk up. And like, damn, I gotta say, I
Speaker 1: got a lot of emails and comments and opinions from
Speaker 1: white people that I did not need, I did not want,
Speaker 1: I did not ask for, I did not benefit from.
Speaker 1: And I'm white. Yeah, so like I just I can
Speaker 1: only imagine what people were saying to black people. And
Speaker 1: it's like white people, you know, if you have facts,
Speaker 1: you have information, you have a link rack and donate,
Speaker 1: sign a petition like great, amazing, share that info on
Speaker 1: your Instagram on your Twitter whatever, you know, right after
Speaker 1: the swipe up for sugar bar hair gummies. But your
Speaker 1: opinions white people right now can head to the back
Speaker 1: of the damnlo people really don't like keeping any thoughts
Speaker 1: to themselves because they've never had to before, and they've
Speaker 1: never and it's like, you don't know what it's like.
Speaker 1: It's like the when white people when when when a
Speaker 1: when a large chunk of white people experience any minor
Speaker 1: inconvenience only hell, you'd think you'd think a dozen birds
Speaker 1: just flew into their bed and shipped on their face
Speaker 1: while they were asleep, cross then down. We need to
Speaker 1: have a better sense of resilience white people and compassion.
Speaker 1: My god, this is a human rights issue you and
Speaker 1: uh and and obviously, like some of this might seem
Speaker 1: alwaysn't this ironic because we are white, but that is
Speaker 1: why we like there's so much noise anytime there's outrage
Speaker 1: in America. But we're like, Okay, obviously it's our turn
Speaker 1: to just listen to black people. But what we can do,
Speaker 1: because we already have this platform of the Guys We
Speaker 1: Fu podcast, we can talk to white people. Were white,
Speaker 1: We know the white experience. We know how to talk
Speaker 1: to white people. We I think, we know, you know
Speaker 1: things that white people respond to, especially young white people,
Speaker 1: especially young white women. Um. And it's always telling me
Speaker 1: to fucking research Lena Dunham, get the funk off my page.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing. It's always like, because we're in
Speaker 1: this consistent pattern of outrage right now. Um. It's like
Speaker 1: when something really really incredibly important, It's always been important,
Speaker 1: but like, I think it just hit us in a
Speaker 1: different way because we've all been in our houses and
Speaker 1: we're like, Wow, even when Americans are literally like quarantined
Speaker 1: in their homes, the police still find a way to
Speaker 1: murder unarmed black people. Um. And so I think, and
Speaker 1: I think what we're seeing this week with the protests
Speaker 1: in all fifty states. I don't know if you saw
Speaker 1: that information. Fifty states there were protests for it to
Speaker 1: seek justice for George Floyd and Brianna Taylor and a
Speaker 1: mod Arebory. And that's amazing. Um. And I think it's
Speaker 1: proof that when we all focus on one thing, we
Speaker 1: actually see results when we're all not just fucking screaming
Speaker 1: for our cause. It's great that you have your cause,
Speaker 1: Christina and I have our causes that we talk about. Christina,
Speaker 1: you know, got went and got certified to be UH
Speaker 1: an advocate at Bellevue Hospital for Victims of sexual assault
Speaker 1: and domestic violence. And we had a whole day on
Speaker 1: Race Train on on Race talking about race and how
Speaker 1: it's a different experience when you walk into that fucking
Speaker 1: there when you're a black, brown person. It's it's just
Speaker 1: extra birt and it's the scene with me. It's like,
Speaker 1: you guys know, I'm always fucking like, uh do at
Speaker 1: no alternatives doing lgbt Q work. That's my passion, that's
Speaker 1: my cause, that's what I've chose. But again, when you
Speaker 1: add the layer of being black on top of especially
Speaker 1: especially being trans, it is this whole other thing. And
Speaker 1: we've seen so many trans deaths already for women of color,
Speaker 1: UH specifically a lot of black women this year. Nina
Speaker 1: pop is one, and and so it's just like, we
Speaker 1: need to focus on this one thing. And it's so
Speaker 1: great because we all focus. And then three other officers
Speaker 1: who were complicit in the murder of George Floyd were arrested.
Speaker 1: We got the third degree murder charge moved up to
Speaker 1: the second degree murder charge for Derek Chalvin and like
Speaker 1: we're seeing results because we all went out and worked together.
Speaker 1: And if you look at like my timeline and I'm
Speaker 1: sure your timeline on Instagram, on Twitter, Facebook, no one
Speaker 1: goes on anymore. But if you're old, you know it's
Speaker 1: good for your parents. Uh, Like it was flooded in
Speaker 1: a way I have never seen in my lifetime people
Speaker 1: care about one thing and like obviously about four years
Speaker 1: too late, but like you know it needed to be done. Yes,
Speaker 1: so yes, this is this is so important that we
Speaker 1: focus on this one, this issue. Guys, we put it
Speaker 1: and and white people, Yo, you got to talk to
Speaker 1: other white people when you see ship happening. Kent and
Speaker 1: I were Barack Obama went um live. Um he did
Speaker 1: a zoom presentation where he had a poet speak and
Speaker 1: then and then he spoke, and then there was a
Speaker 1: panel and um, a person out We were outdoors listening
Speaker 1: to this on the speaker. We were listening to music
Speaker 1: and then we're listening to that when he came on.
Speaker 1: And we're in New Jersey right now, just for contact. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're in New Jersey and this guy I saw him
Speaker 1: yesterday and he came out with a Maga hat and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, I'm not gonna say, yeah, you want
Speaker 1: where that happened, but okay. Um. And then when we
Speaker 1: were playing we're playing music all day, and then we
Speaker 1: played um Barack Obama speaking heard from the other side
Speaker 1: of the fence boo. And let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: I I wanted to go over to that fucking fence
Speaker 1: and fucking pluck that motherfucker's eyeballs out and put him
Speaker 1: up his taint. I don't even you can't even do that.
Speaker 1: I was in shock. I thought I was hallucinating because
Speaker 1: I was like, what did I just hear a boo
Speaker 1: from over the bis and and I was like, oh, fun.
Speaker 1: But you know what I did. I took a second
Speaker 1: and I thought, after fantasizing about, you know, all of
Speaker 1: the violent things I wanted to do just in my
Speaker 1: mind because I had to go there, just to let
Speaker 1: me go there, and uh, and then I go to
Speaker 1: know what, No, that's not how you have a conversation, Christina,
Speaker 1: because man, and I've heard this from black voices on
Speaker 1: social media, how exhausted they are and explaining things to
Speaker 1: white people. Hey, white people, let's take on that role,
Speaker 1: can't we can we have it in us. But what
Speaker 1: is imperative to taking on that role and talking to
Speaker 1: other white people is approaching it the way that you
Speaker 1: would like to be treated. Because we have it in us,
Speaker 1: we have not We are not born in a country
Speaker 1: with a system that was made against us to keep
Speaker 1: us down. So we it's don't be lazy, white people.
Speaker 1: Take a breath, set on yourself, be in your body,
Speaker 1: and have the conversation. Don't you know my my, my
Speaker 1: initial um fantasy of reaction to this man was pretty violent,
Speaker 1: and then I got, you know what, no, because if
Speaker 1: I want him to understand where I'm coming from, I
Speaker 1: have to level with him, and I have to get
Speaker 1: I have to approach with compassion and empathy and all
Speaker 1: that ship. It's not black people's jobs as white people,
Speaker 1: because white people are the ones that are doing this
Speaker 1: in the fucking first place. Yeah, And additionally, it's bothersome
Speaker 1: to me that just because he's wearing a MAGA hat
Speaker 1: like that, like wearing a MAGA hat should not go
Speaker 1: hand in hand with not being on board with Black
Speaker 1: Lives matter, because as we've you know, talked about certainly
Speaker 1: other times, but especially this week, is that, like it's
Speaker 1: not a it's not a political issue. It's a human issue, right,
Speaker 1: like the Black lives matter. Just in short, before we
Speaker 1: get into this, because there's been some confusion and it's
Speaker 1: always I always like, um, too uh wordy in my
Speaker 1: explanation of it. And then thank god, Eliza Schless Singer
Speaker 1: actually made a really concise, smart, intelligent video to explain
Speaker 1: to her very white from you know, some of her
Speaker 1: very white followers who I could tell that she was
Speaker 1: on a loser ship. Yeah she was. She was very
Speaker 1: frustrated with but God bless her. She made the video
Speaker 1: and she goes, black lives matter doesn't mean other lives
Speaker 1: don't matter. When you think of black lives matter as
Speaker 1: the movement at a comma t o o to it,
Speaker 1: black lives matter means black lives matter too. It means
Speaker 1: black lives matter just as much. And that's what she said,
Speaker 1: and I thought, Oh, what a beautiful, sistinct way to
Speaker 1: really capture it, because that that's this but white people
Speaker 1: have it's like, but but what about me? It's like,
Speaker 1: shut the funk up. It's always about always about It's
Speaker 1: always about always about us. It really is. It's always
Speaker 1: about us, and that does not take away from any
Speaker 1: pain or trauma that you've gone through. But let me
Speaker 1: tell you, there's an extra layer of just existing with
Speaker 1: your skin color in society that you are not and
Speaker 1: never will experience. So just know that and just take
Speaker 1: a deep breath and go, Yeah, it's not they're not
Speaker 1: saying their lives matter more. They're saying no one values
Speaker 1: our lives. That's why we had to create this movement.
Speaker 1: We don't need an all lives matter movement. No one's
Speaker 1: arguing that white lives don't matter. Like look turned on
Speaker 1: the news. People already know that. Yeah, and and please
Speaker 1: know white people that if you are keep responding all
Speaker 1: lives matter, that is coming across like you're an ignorant,
Speaker 1: fucking cunt. Okay, and and maybe you're not. I feel
Speaker 1: like you might be maybe your or we're blue lives matter.
Speaker 1: Oh oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: shut up. Well, we're gonna keep talking, but we're gonna
Speaker 1: be reading some emails from our black listeners, just talking
Speaker 1: about their experiences because you need to know them. And
Speaker 1: thank you everybody who emailed us. I really appreciate you
Speaker 1: um spending the energy to help two white girls explain
Speaker 1: to other white people. Uh, your pain, and I really
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I can't imagine how exhausted and hurt and
Speaker 1: upset you must be right now. Um, but we appreciate
Speaker 1: you helping us, helping us in this episode. Seriously, thank
Speaker 1: you so Email number one. The subject line reads, this
Speaker 1: is why protests in America are so important. Hi, Christina
Speaker 1: and Karn, my name is Priscilla. You can say it.
Speaker 1: I'm twenty six years old. I'm from South Carolina. I'm
Speaker 1: going to share some racist experiences I had as a child.
Speaker 1: Number One, in kindergarten, there would be a little white girl,
Speaker 1: white girls I wanted to play with, and they basically
Speaker 1: tell me that I wasn't the kind of black girl,
Speaker 1: light skin or mix they wanted to play with. I
Speaker 1: played slave with a white friend when I was six.
Speaker 1: We hadn't learned about it in school yet, but her
Speaker 1: family had Encyclopedia's. She told me that a long time ago,
Speaker 1: white people owned black people. That escalated somehow to her
Speaker 1: tying a jump rope around my neck and then to
Speaker 1: a basketball poll. Three, in second grade, I was playing
Speaker 1: with two white girls in my backyard and one needed
Speaker 1: to go check what time it was. The other suggested
Speaker 1: she go inside my house to check to check, and
Speaker 1: this little girl yells, I'm not going in that house
Speaker 1: with those N words. I bawled my eyes out four
Speaker 1: I couldn't swim. I still can't. The Royal tyrant above
Speaker 1: was teaching me to swim by carrying me on her
Speaker 1: back in the deep end of the pool so I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be a stereotype. She dropped me and smiled as
Speaker 1: I was drowning. She only got me out when her
Speaker 1: mom came outside and then pretended to think that I
Speaker 1: was swimming. Imagine what those kids were learning at home
Speaker 1: and say about the people they grew up to be.
Speaker 1: I've been doing a lot of thinking lately, and I
Speaker 1: realized that a lot of black people um that. I
Speaker 1: realized that a lot of black people, I won't speak
Speaker 1: for all, have learned to make white people comfortable in
Speaker 1: order to protect ourselves. It's traumatic to experience racism as
Speaker 1: a child. Have parents that lived through integration and no
Speaker 1: people who have had their life negatively impacted by racism,
Speaker 1: missed opportunities, jail death. You learn how to put a
Speaker 1: voice on for cops not to do anything that could
Speaker 1: be perceived as mischievous. If there's a white person around
Speaker 1: that looks uncomfortable by your presence, You smile when there's
Speaker 1: a white person in the elevator with you, You move
Speaker 1: when white a white person is walking towards you. But
Speaker 1: despite all this effort making white people comfortable, black people
Speaker 1: are still being murdered by people paid to protect us,
Speaker 1: hunted by white people uncomfortable with our presence, and dismissed
Speaker 1: when we're vocal about the injustices we've experienced. The protests
Speaker 1: are more are important because we're tired, scared, sad, and
Speaker 1: simply have had enough. It's time we're able to truly
Speaker 1: live in peace, something that we can't even do as children.
Speaker 1: Hashtag black Lives Matter, A loyal fucker, Priscilla Okay, and
Speaker 1: then um number two black in the USA is the
Speaker 1: subject line here. I am a thirty five year old
Speaker 1: six ft one black gay male living in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: starting in this tumultuous time of senseless murder and hate.
Speaker 1: I would like to say that the murder of George
Speaker 1: Floyd Ahmad are very and Brianna Taylor hit me hard
Speaker 1: and shocked me to the core, But I cannot of course,
Speaker 1: I am sad and horrified, But I am also a
Speaker 1: black male. But what does that mean? I am a
Speaker 1: black male? It means that in the fifth grade my
Speaker 1: parents became worried for my safety because I had a
Speaker 1: growth spurt and was taller than most of my teachers,
Speaker 1: which means that I had, without my knowledge, become a
Speaker 1: threat to society. My parents sat me down and how
Speaker 1: to explain to me and my younger brother that we
Speaker 1: needed to be careful on how we acted, presented ourselves,
Speaker 1: and spoke in the presence of white people, because at
Speaker 1: any point in time, a whisper and a pointed finger
Speaker 1: could end our lives. I grew up with this constant
Speaker 1: reminder from not only my parents, but the media as well.
Speaker 1: From a young age, I saw black people portrayed in news,
Speaker 1: film and TV as entities to be feared, looked down upon,
Speaker 1: or simply disregarded. After years of seeing this happen again
Speaker 1: and again and again, you become a little desensitized. So
Speaker 1: when it happens again and your friends look to you
Speaker 1: and ask how do you feel about this, my gut
Speaker 1: reaction that I honestly have never said out loud, is
Speaker 1: why do you care? Now this question is not asked
Speaker 1: out of disdain or anger. It's a legit, honest question,
Speaker 1: why do you care? I have had to grow up
Speaker 1: with this knowledge of murder and violence within the black
Speaker 1: community for most of my life. It follows me like
Speaker 1: a shadow, so much so that when I see this
Speaker 1: kind of ship happened, I simply think to myself, that
Speaker 1: could be me. Then I take a breath and try
Speaker 1: to live my life as best as I can. So
Speaker 1: when someone asked me, how do you feel, well, I
Speaker 1: feel the same way if a white person was unjustly murdered, Asian, Indian, Muslim, Armenian, Jewish.
Speaker 1: The list goes on and on. If a person is
Speaker 1: unjustly killed, it's awful, but it's much worse when nobody
Speaker 1: cares simply because of the race of the victim. And
Speaker 1: that kind of disregard for human life can eat away
Speaker 1: at the souls and minds of minorities. And I have
Speaker 1: lovely and kind friends who I know would ask me, hey,
Speaker 1: why don't you tell me about these things? Well? As
Speaker 1: a person of the world, I would honestly just like
Speaker 1: to have a nice day like most people and talk
Speaker 1: about things that bring a smile to my face. If
Speaker 1: I have to remind you that social injustice happens every
Speaker 1: day of my life, then I might snap and kneel
Speaker 1: on your neck till you black out. But I wouldn't
Speaker 1: kill you. I'm not a cop. And to all the
Speaker 1: white ladies of the world, if you're walking down the
Speaker 1: street and you see a black gentleman who also happens
Speaker 1: to be taking a stroll, you have unknowingly ruined our day.
Speaker 1: We see the fear, the awkward tensing of your body,
Speaker 1: and the clutching of your purse, and in at least
Speaker 1: my mind, I'm thinking, God, damn it, God, damn it.
Speaker 1: Is it just us? Jesus, let me live through this.
Speaker 1: Do I smile at her to defuse the situation? Or
Speaker 1: do I look at my phone to show my disinterests.
Speaker 1: I know I'll look at my watch and do a
Speaker 1: jump skip so she'll think, well, what a jolly fellow,
Speaker 1: and we will hopefully pass each other without any confrontation.
Speaker 1: Unless I'm trapped walking behind you, then I'm in pure hell.
Speaker 1: But of course men in general can be pieces of ship.
Speaker 1: So ladies, do what you must to protect yourselves. I
Speaker 1: just that ask that if you're going to discriminate, then
Speaker 1: do so equally and hopefully without prejudice. Thank you, Queens
Speaker 1: for all that you too have done and will do. Sincerely, Norman.
Speaker 1: This subject Glene is black lives matter, my personal experience. Hi,
Speaker 1: Crinic Christina, my name, uh, she says, we could say
Speaker 1: it at the end. I'm just gonna say her first
Speaker 1: name just in case. My name is Ivy and I'm
Speaker 1: bi racial, black and white. Twenty eight year old born
Speaker 1: and raised in l A. Love you both have been
Speaker 1: a loyal fucker for years. I wanted to share with
Speaker 1: you something that I wrote. I've been trying to put
Speaker 1: my thoughts into words for a few days. Please feel
Speaker 1: free to share this and use my use. My name's
Speaker 1: Ivory Malone. I was born in May of My city
Speaker 1: was rioting because of the injustice of Rodney King case.
Speaker 1: The rioters hoped you were listening to them. You were not.
Speaker 1: In two thousand fifteen, I lived in Brooklyn and proudly
Speaker 1: marched in the streets to protest the injustice of Eric
Speaker 1: Garner's death. I was much more hopeful then. I felt like,
Speaker 1: just maybe you were listening. You were not. In two
Speaker 1: thousand seventeen, I started dating my boyfriend Jack, who was
Speaker 1: born and raised in Minneapolis. I visited and fallen in
Speaker 1: love with that city over and over again. I protest
Speaker 1: for the injustice of George Floyd's death in that city
Speaker 1: that I love. Do you hear me, Please hear me.
Speaker 1: My heart is broken. I don't sleep well, I can't
Speaker 1: think straight. I am in pain. I was born into
Speaker 1: this world where people were speaking out against the violent,
Speaker 1: murderous police. Twenty eight years later, we are still fighting,
Speaker 1: still begging you to listen, to understand, to see us.
Speaker 1: We don't have time for your some cops are good cops,
Speaker 1: or all lives matter. We don't have time for your
Speaker 1: judgment of people of color, rioters and looters, because I
Speaker 1: promise you the anger and hurt that we feel is
Speaker 1: something you will never understand. The invisibility is something you
Speaker 1: will never have to feel. You cannot pass judgment on
Speaker 1: what you do not understand. All I ask is for
Speaker 1: you to listen, to see me, to see my family,
Speaker 1: to see my black friends, your black neighbors, your black
Speaker 1: friends and family, to support support us by acknowledging that
Speaker 1: the only statement that matters right now is black lives matter.
Speaker 1: All lives do not matter a till black lives matter.
Speaker 1: It is so simple, but somehow so hard for you
Speaker 1: to understand, so hard for you to focus on. I
Speaker 1: see your posts, your judgments. You're muddling of what you
Speaker 1: should be focusing on, and that deeply upsets me. That
Speaker 1: ignites my pain, my fear, my anger. Please take the
Speaker 1: time to listen to black voices. We were born with
Speaker 1: this fear. My family members have been born with this
Speaker 1: fear for generations, and nothing was changed, has changed. Things
Speaker 1: can't get better until you start listening, until you start seeing,
Speaker 1: Listen to black voices. Donate your money to black organizations,
Speaker 1: support businesses that support us. I also asked that you
Speaker 1: support us by voting out a racist president who actively
Speaker 1: supports white supremacy and openly threatens us with violence. Vote locally,
Speaker 1: vote for change, Vote vote vote black lives matter, Justice
Speaker 1: for George Floyd. The system is not broken, It was
Speaker 1: created to work this way. We can build a new
Speaker 1: system if you take the time to listen. If you
Speaker 1: need resources, let me know. The only thing that brings
Speaker 1: me hope is knowing that when you start to listen,
Speaker 1: this country has the limitless potential for change. We are screaming,
Speaker 1: so listen xo xo ivy uh. This next one is
Speaker 1: my white best friend hasn't reached out. Hi, ladies, I
Speaker 1: am from the South, and it seems like the favorite
Speaker 1: saying there when it comes to races, quote, I don't
Speaker 1: see color that is problematic, and that there are differences
Speaker 1: across the board from my for minorities stemming from systematic racism,
Speaker 1: and to not acknowledge these things is misguided. My closest
Speaker 1: friends since eighth grade is white, and she has never
Speaker 1: acknowledged my blackness. We have never had any conversations about
Speaker 1: major race related things for our entire friendship. I used
Speaker 1: to post on Facebook before I deleted it two years ago,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure that she used to see things. I
Speaker 1: would post posts such as elation after the election of
Speaker 1: the first black president, strong words against Trump's history of
Speaker 1: racism and misogyny prior to his election, and despair at
Speaker 1: the killings of black people who don't deserve to die.
Speaker 1: Our friendship and conversations are generally focused on her and
Speaker 1: her problems, and then right before she is about to
Speaker 1: get off the phone, she will say, oh, how are
Speaker 1: you and then hardly listen, and then have to go
Speaker 1: a few minutes after that. I have gone along with
Speaker 1: this because it is our dynamic that she is more
Speaker 1: talkative and I am more reserved with my feelings. She
Speaker 1: went through really difficult and unsafe marital issues last year
Speaker 1: and into this year, and I was extremely concerned about
Speaker 1: her well being and made myself fully available to her
Speaker 1: whenever she needed to invent and ask for advice. In
Speaker 1: the current climate, I have not heard anything from her
Speaker 1: expressing support or concern, and light of the killings of
Speaker 1: the George Floyd or Ahmad are very the protests and
Speaker 1: riots that have ensued. As much as I have tried
Speaker 1: to put it out of my mind, it hurts. Even
Speaker 1: though these types of topics have not been broached in
Speaker 1: the past between us. I had some hope that once
Speaker 1: it came to this national breaking point, it might be time.
Speaker 1: We usually talk once a week, and we're supposed to
Speaker 1: talk this past weekend, but I canceled because I just
Speaker 1: wasn't up for the conversation that would mainly be focused
Speaker 1: on how she is annoyed that her baby woke up
Speaker 1: twenty five minutes before the scheduled time. There is a
Speaker 1: possibility that she could have brought it up during the conversation,
Speaker 1: but given our history, it is highly unlikely and that
Speaker 1: would have left me feeling even more down. I feel
Speaker 1: like this dynamic in our relationship has gone on for
Speaker 1: too long for me to say something about it. Now.
Speaker 1: My mama says I should just bring up my thoughts
Speaker 1: and feelings more. But when I have opened up to
Speaker 1: my friends about things in the past, it was met
Speaker 1: with like a one sentence comment and then somehow steered
Speaker 1: back to her problems. I us don't know how to
Speaker 1: get a deeper level of conversation and empathy after seventeen years. Also,
Speaker 1: I am scared, yeah, that she will feel very differently
Speaker 1: than I do about the protests and will turn me
Speaker 1: off from even wanting to continue the friendship. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. That is damn Next subject line the
Speaker 1: story of a white woman bullying her black roommate Hikrit
Speaker 1: and Christina. This is in response to your call for
Speaker 1: stories from your black listeners. I am a twenty two
Speaker 1: year old black woman who just graduated from a small
Speaker 1: college in the middle of Wisconsin this past May of nineteen.
Speaker 1: As a black woman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, going to a
Speaker 1: small farm town college. This was intimidating, to say the least,
Speaker 1: and definitely a culture shock. I did not know how
Speaker 1: many people on campus, and especially not many black people
Speaker 1: are brown folks. However, my freshman year, I met another
Speaker 1: freshman named Caroline. Caroline was white. I developed a lot
Speaker 1: of trust towards Caroline because we spoke about many different
Speaker 1: things like guy issues, race in school. I appreciated our friendship.
Speaker 1: We decided to become roommates, and we lived together for
Speaker 1: three years with several other roommates. I thought things were
Speaker 1: great until my final year when things took a sharp turn.
Speaker 1: I think it started when I got into a small
Speaker 1: argument because I walked in on her making out with
Speaker 1: my crush. Something that quite something that's quite common for
Speaker 1: her in my opinion. Uh, something switched in Caroline. After
Speaker 1: being proven wrong in our arguments. White people hat getting
Speaker 1: told wrong like a castle stufe people. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Caroline would start to accuse me of many different things,
Speaker 1: for example, like stealing her food and liquor, oh, turning
Speaker 1: the thermostatuo high, not cleaning up after myself. Ah. And
Speaker 1: even though it was evident that the mess was not mine,
Speaker 1: it got to the point where she would start to
Speaker 1: literally throw money towards me for the bills I paid
Speaker 1: and made me pick it up. Oh fuck. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: would walk into a room where where she and other
Speaker 1: folks were and the entire room got silent, making me
Speaker 1: feel even more alone than I already was. Some of
Speaker 1: her accusations seemed to be petty, but after a while
Speaker 1: it got to me and I knew exactly what she
Speaker 1: was doing. She was victimizing herself because I made I
Speaker 1: made her acknowledge where she was wrong. Living with Caroline
Speaker 1: became a nightmare. I could barely be at home without
Speaker 1: feeling uncomfortable. Not only was I the only black roommate,
Speaker 1: but as many times as I would defend myself, I
Speaker 1: was doubted by my other white roommates. When you tell
Speaker 1: white people that their friend might have done something racist,
Speaker 1: they will not believe you. People naturally trust other people
Speaker 1: who look like them and share similar cultures. I was
Speaker 1: fully convinced that no matter what I said, my white
Speaker 1: roommates would always side with Caroline, not because she was right,
Speaker 1: but because she was white. Caroline time and time again
Speaker 1: accused me of things I did not do. It felt
Speaker 1: like she was using her power as a white woman
Speaker 1: to convince my roommates to see me as a lying,
Speaker 1: angry black woman and someone not to be trusted. My
Speaker 1: other roommates were the white liberal type. They were against Trump,
Speaker 1: and they love to preach about veganism, uh and and recycling,
Speaker 1: but never really spoke up about racial issues. Should have
Speaker 1: been a red flag, but I'm learning and growing. I
Speaker 1: felt like I was the only I was only in
Speaker 1: their lives to make them seem more liberal. This is
Speaker 1: still racism. They may not be calling me the N
Speaker 1: word or threatening my life, but this is a very
Speaker 1: quiet and subtle racism that black folks experience every day.
Speaker 1: This is a kind of racism that will eat you
Speaker 1: alive because there seems to be nothing to do about it.
Speaker 1: I felt trapped. I ended up staying in a friend's
Speaker 1: apartment for almost two months until we graduated. This was
Speaker 1: hard to seeing a friend who I trusted turn on
Speaker 1: me and use her whiteness to bullying me. I've been
Speaker 1: listening for years. You two are like big sisters to me.
Speaker 1: Thanks for giving me the space to tell my story.
Speaker 1: Thank you for writing us. Wow, white women, we gotta
Speaker 1: be real aware of how the oh boy, you know black.
Speaker 1: Your black girls are not like your fucking uh prop,
Speaker 1: your prop for liberalism. So they're not like your Paris
Speaker 1: Hilton dog in a bayag. So stop doing that. Uh
Speaker 1: the light skinned girl quote who isn't even black? Hikurent
Speaker 1: and Christina, thank you for reaching out to your black
Speaker 1: listeners to help share our voice during these times. I'm
Speaker 1: a half black, half white, twenty six year old single
Speaker 1: mom of a three year old living in northern California,
Speaker 1: well up from California. A couple of weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: was pulled over on the highway and a police officer,
Speaker 1: white mids late sixties, heavy built, completely verbally harassed me,
Speaker 1: using derogatory names and words to try and get his
Speaker 1: point across that I shouldn't be going seventy one miles
Speaker 1: per hour in a sixty five mile per hour zone
Speaker 1: on the freeway. Okay, side note, as anyone knows, if
Speaker 1: you're white, you can go ten miles over the speed limit,
Speaker 1: no problem, anytime, anytime. Um. In my mind, I was
Speaker 1: going with the flow of traffic. But I sat there
Speaker 1: with my mouth shut, tears running down my face, digesting
Speaker 1: his anger, and being think full. My daughter was not
Speaker 1: in the car. As he was lecturing me, he would
Speaker 1: throw in questions that were completely uncalled for. Uh that
Speaker 1: I know for a damn fat a fact, he wouldn't
Speaker 1: have asked if I was white, Why is your purse
Speaker 1: so big? Is there anything in there that I should
Speaker 1: be worried about? Woof? If you have a car seat
Speaker 1: in the car? Where is the child? Ah in the breadbox? Uh?
Speaker 1: I have never in my life encountered a police officer
Speaker 1: UH that had such anger, and I feared so much
Speaker 1: for my life in that moment that I knew if
Speaker 1: I reacted, it could go south very fast. If I
Speaker 1: would have responded the way I wanted to respond, who
Speaker 1: knows how this story would have ended, having my car searched, assaulted, arrested, dead.
Speaker 1: All I could think about was my child, who I
Speaker 1: had just dropped off at her dad so I can
Speaker 1: work from home in peace for a couple of hours.
Speaker 1: It was after this moment that it really fucking hit me.
Speaker 1: In the eyes of the police, I'm a black woman.
Speaker 1: In the eyes of schools and employers, I'm a ack woman.
Speaker 1: But in the in the contracts to my friends and family,
Speaker 1: I'm the light skinned girl who isn't even black who
Speaker 1: doesn't even act black, and whenever I confront the racism,
Speaker 1: I get mocked and told while you're not even full black,
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to get this mad. I've heard this
Speaker 1: statement from family, friends, and colleagues. Sometimes life really sucks
Speaker 1: because of the words people say that bash who you
Speaker 1: are as a person, and life especially sucks when someone
Speaker 1: has treated you poorly due to how they identify you.
Speaker 1: I'm thankful for these protests as it's bringing awareness to
Speaker 1: not only racial injustice across America, but also my sadness
Speaker 1: that I've felt the past couple of weeks and feeling
Speaker 1: very alone about my experience and how it has been
Speaker 1: much worse for countless people across America. The protests started
Speaker 1: because a man was murdered in the streets by a cop,
Speaker 1: but this is not the only kind of racism we receive.
Speaker 1: It needs to end, and we need allies like you
Speaker 1: both that can assist us in our fight. I'm praying
Speaker 1: for a better tomorrow, a reform on the police force
Speaker 1: and how they are trained, and for when my life
Speaker 1: will matter. Wishing you both all the best and a
Speaker 1: lot more success. That's very nice. Uh. And finally, subject
Speaker 1: line is a story from a black listener. Hey guys,
Speaker 1: but a long time listener and a fan of you both,
Speaker 1: and as a black woman, I thank you for doing
Speaker 1: your part in this movement. It's up to all of
Speaker 1: us to speak out together. The other day, I shared
Speaker 1: the below posts and have gotten a lot of replies
Speaker 1: and support from non black family. I'm half white, so
Speaker 1: half my family is white and friends who thanked me
Speaker 1: for sharing the story. If you guys think that sharing, um,
Speaker 1: that sharing on your bigger platform will help other listeners
Speaker 1: understand that by all means, please share either way, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you. Okay, So I have the thank you for
Speaker 1: writing us, and I have the post here. Um. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is her post. I was seventeen and a
Speaker 1: block away from my home the first night I got
Speaker 1: called a the N word. Um. A few months later,
Speaker 1: I got pulled over while driving my dad's car, and
Speaker 1: I'll never forget as cop laughed when I started crying
Speaker 1: because I didn't understand why he was being so mean
Speaker 1: to me. In college, a fellow student wants spit on
Speaker 1: the floor in front of my friend and I and
Speaker 1: called us and words I witnessed. Boston police threatened to
Speaker 1: dropkick a kid while trying to leave a party that
Speaker 1: had been broken up after St. Patrick's Day parade in Boston,
Speaker 1: I watched a cop start shoving people because the crowd
Speaker 1: that was moving as he asked was not moving fast
Speaker 1: enough for his liking. On the way home from Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: dinner a few years ago, my white mother got pulled
Speaker 1: over for expired tags, and during the traffic stop, witnessed
Speaker 1: my father be harassed and questioned by police when all
Speaker 1: he was trying to do was quietly played Candy Crush
Speaker 1: in the backseat. I love the game. I have loved ones,
Speaker 1: both white and black, who have been arrested and witnessed
Speaker 1: how much worse than sadistic and violent cops are when
Speaker 1: there's no bystandards or cell phones to tape them. And
Speaker 1: those stories are just the ones I could think of
Speaker 1: in the in the in this, at this current moment.
Speaker 1: I don't say any of this for sympathy. I say
Speaker 1: this because I guarantee you nine percent of the black
Speaker 1: people in your life have similar and far worse stories.
Speaker 1: I write this because, as a black person with a
Speaker 1: wide circle of non black family and friends, it's time
Speaker 1: for me to ask them, you to step up. The
Speaker 1: treatment of Black people by this country has been going
Speaker 1: on for all of our lives, and if you aren't
Speaker 1: seeing it till now, congrats on your privilege. Black people
Speaker 1: are tired and angry and in pain. I am in pain.
Speaker 1: The system is broken, and I'm here to tell you
Speaker 1: I am a witness of that. To know me is
Speaker 1: to know that most of the time I am laid back,
Speaker 1: go with the flow type person, But every day I'm
Speaker 1: angry and sad and frustrated. If you are not for
Speaker 1: Black Lives movement, then you are not for me. Now
Speaker 1: is not the time to be passive with your activism.
Speaker 1: You don't see color bullshit. If you're outspoken about rioting
Speaker 1: but not about the continuous murders, you are part. You
Speaker 1: are part of the problem. If you are in all
Speaker 1: lives matter status type, you are part of the problem.
Speaker 1: If you are silently watching the people risking their lives
Speaker 1: this weekend, you are part of the problem. When while
Speaker 1: people protested with no masks but all the guns, demanding
Speaker 1: the country open so they can get their hair done,
Speaker 1: they were allowed. But let us protests over the murder
Speaker 1: of our men and women, and it's tear gas beatings
Speaker 1: and nightly curfews, which apparently, if you can't make it
Speaker 1: home by do by due to traffic, you get tasted
Speaker 1: and your windows smashed and your tire slashed. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying you have to go out and protest. I understand
Speaker 1: and respect that it is not for everyone, but there
Speaker 1: are many ways to be anti racists and support the movement.
Speaker 1: You can donate money and supplies to not only protesters
Speaker 1: or bail funds, but organizations in your community that support
Speaker 1: black initiatives. Make a product or an offer, offer service
Speaker 1: to others than donate proceeds. Call your senator and demand reform.
Speaker 1: Get creative, call out your racist uncle. Uh, call out
Speaker 1: your racist uncle and that white friend who thinks it's
Speaker 1: okay to say the N word. Yes, get educated. Educate yourself,
Speaker 1: educate your children, educate your family and friends. If you're
Speaker 1: reading this, it means you have access to the Internet,
Speaker 1: where there are countless resources to help you learn. Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter dot com is an excellent place to start
Speaker 1: for the articles and resources. Also fun fact, if you
Speaker 1: have a library card, there's tons of e books you
Speaker 1: can rent online for free. Just don't be silent in
Speaker 1: order to begin to fix this deeply broken system. It
Speaker 1: takes all our voices. Stand up to your family and
Speaker 1: friends who remain quiet and or open their mouths to
Speaker 1: spe you hate or don't do any of it. But
Speaker 1: to remain silent is to be complicit in my oppression
Speaker 1: and the impression of oppression of others. And I have
Speaker 1: zero tolerance policy for your complacency. So if that's you
Speaker 1: delete me as a friend, that's cool. I'll I'm surrounded
Speaker 1: by a strong circle of love and support, so your
Speaker 1: negativity won't be missed. And to my friends and family
Speaker 1: or speaking up and checking in, thank you, I see you,
Speaker 1: I love you, and I deeply appreciate you. So those
Speaker 1: are some email from our from listeners sharing their experiences.
Speaker 1: I hope, um, I hope you listen. I hope you
Speaker 1: fucking listen. And it makes me like when the term microaggression, UM,
Speaker 1: I remember you know, because we're all if you're a
Speaker 1: white person, that you you you were at one point
Speaker 1: ignorant all this ship of course, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You just you you were because you didn't get treated
Speaker 1: like you weren't a person. You didn't get treated less
Speaker 1: than you didn't have somebody be so fucking treat you
Speaker 1: like inferior. How that can Oh my god, what that
Speaker 1: does to a human being sold living as a second
Speaker 1: class citizen in a place that you were forced to
Speaker 1: come to to begin with. Yeah, and so the term
Speaker 1: microaggressions used to make me roll my eyes. Done anymore?
Speaker 1: Now I get it. I get it. I get what
Speaker 1: a microaggression is. Well, because again again they made it
Speaker 1: made you roll your eyes, I'm sure because you were
Speaker 1: hearing it from fucking white people. Yeah, a lot. You know,
Speaker 1: I was rolling my eyes when I was hearing it
Speaker 1: from white people kind of talking about like white microaggressions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like when I'm black, people say that, I go, oh,
Speaker 1: like like yo, Nika and like Chloe Hilliard and people
Speaker 1: like that would say it, and I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: you understand what I mean. I don't. I don't understand that,
Speaker 1: like I experienced it, but I'm like, oh, I get
Speaker 1: what you're talking about, Like, you know, things like can
Speaker 1: I fucking you know, can I touch your hair? Or
Speaker 1: you know, because people say it with the best intentions,
Speaker 1: but like, black people are not an exhibit. Black people
Speaker 1: are not an animal at people. They're not your little
Speaker 1: doll to experience your first black person with like they're
Speaker 1: just people. That's the cut, Like, yeah, Lester said it
Speaker 1: really great. He's he's like a comedian who um is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite Twitter followers. He lives in l
Speaker 1: A now. But like he's just like he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: all the stuff you're doing right now is great, thanks
Speaker 1: for protesting, Thanks for you know, and I'm paraphrasing here,
Speaker 1: he's like, thanks for donating. He's like, but a lot
Speaker 1: of white people are being like, what can I do?
Speaker 1: And he's like, you know what you can do. You
Speaker 1: can just like say hi to a black person that
Speaker 1: you don't know and smile. And I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, great tip. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because people, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, fear. Fear is the ultimate way to control
Speaker 1: a population, or control any movement, or control people or
Speaker 1: to keep people down is to incite fear. And it's
Speaker 1: really important that you know that white people. And it
Speaker 1: was so interesting. I mean, I was I didn't want
Speaker 1: to respond or give my two cents or interrupt any
Speaker 1: of those emails because that's certainly not what we didn't
Speaker 1: ask on your stories to comment on them. Um. But
Speaker 1: Norman the Gentleman who wrote about uh, women on the street. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I I was talking to my my mom the other
Speaker 1: day and I was just like, yeah, I wish I
Speaker 1: wish black men knew that. I was just scared of
Speaker 1: all men, and I really am. I mean, if it's
Speaker 1: not there and there's a man by me who like,
Speaker 1: unless I can tell, like by looking at him that
Speaker 1: he's a gay man, right right right, And in New
Speaker 1: York sometimes you can any man is I'm scared of.
Speaker 1: So just so if that makes anyone feel better, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is all for me. It's all for me. It's
Speaker 1: the penis for me, all man. Scared of all white people.
Speaker 1: I was saying this. I recorded my personal podcast yesterday
Speaker 1: and I was I was really thinking about like white
Speaker 1: people that have that aren't understanding or that are like
Speaker 1: just bullshit all like that, you know, all that stuff
Speaker 1: that they're saying. Um, some big fart out of your mouth.
Speaker 1: Just when you say, e you should check on Lena,
Speaker 1: God fucking focus focus. Um. That kind of white person
Speaker 1: to me I have. I think they're not in their body,
Speaker 1: they're not present with themselves. You just gonnawhelm themselves. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: just like okay, well, I mean truly breathing will get
Speaker 1: you back in your body. But I feel like like this,
Speaker 1: there's this type of white woman that is so any
Speaker 1: little poke or prod and she'll be like, what do
Speaker 1: you want from me? It's like, boo boo. You gotta
Speaker 1: get yourself to a place where you are in your
Speaker 1: own body and you were in touch with your own
Speaker 1: morals and values and you have a fucking conversation with yourself.
Speaker 1: Ask yourself questions. Ask yourself. Let me think about how
Speaker 1: I live my life. When I see a black person
Speaker 1: walking down the street towards me and I'm alone, do
Speaker 1: I clutch my purse? Ask yourself those questions, and if
Speaker 1: you do correctly behavior, yes, whatever the funk you've done
Speaker 1: up until then, we're gonna change it, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: make it for the better. Because boy oh boy, because
Speaker 1: you might be doing some ship and not even knowing it.
Speaker 1: Like I mean, it's it's kind of like something you
Speaker 1: know that this is just an example, but it's like
Speaker 1: I went to the dentist and she was like, it
Speaker 1: looks like by looking at your molars that you're clenching
Speaker 1: your jaw. And I never I had no recollection of
Speaker 1: ever clenching my jaw and she's like, Okay, well, She's like,
Speaker 1: it just seems like by the damage that's on your molars,
Speaker 1: that you've been clenching your jaw. And then surely I
Speaker 1: just had Now I had it in my head, I
Speaker 1: have to think about do I clench my jaw? And
Speaker 1: then during the day, I've caught myself so many times
Speaker 1: clenching my jaw. I had no idea always even clenching
Speaker 1: my jaw. So you you're you're probably doing things that
Speaker 1: are not out like you're not You're not waking up
Speaker 1: in the morning like I'm gonna be racist today. But
Speaker 1: it's just ingrained because of the society that we live
Speaker 1: in and how you were raised. A lot of other
Speaker 1: things and fix it and various systematic things like public
Speaker 1: education systems leaving out. While we can talk about Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King, but we won't talk about the the the
Speaker 1: letter the FBI sent to Dr Martin Luther King a
Speaker 1: one of somebody who who preached peace above anything and equality.
Speaker 1: They get a white director of the FBI sent Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King a suicide letter saying that we heard you
Speaker 1: commingling with other women on a tape, and they sent
Speaker 1: the tape to Corretta and they're basically encouraging him to
Speaker 1: commit suicide. Dutch. I don't want that left out my
Speaker 1: fucking history class. Are you kidding me? We can't just
Speaker 1: pretend it didn't fucking happen. So so so white people,
Speaker 1: be in your own body and be and be be
Speaker 1: with yourself and ask yourself the hard questions, okay, because
Speaker 1: if you cannot find compassion for yourself, you will not
Speaker 1: find compassion for other people. And that is a fucking
Speaker 1: fact of life, okay. And it is very important that
Speaker 1: we approach human issues with compassion. And I feel like
Speaker 1: one of the things that I've noticed with these comments
Speaker 1: from sucking my girls are like, like, think about what
Speaker 1: you just asked me, bitch, that's what I want to.
Speaker 1: I want to go out of your home and I
Speaker 1: want to go. Can you read out well that question
Speaker 1: you just ask me, because um, I would like to.
Speaker 1: I would like to ask you, um, why you think
Speaker 1: that's an important thing? What you do? You tell me
Speaker 1: what to do? Are you to tell me? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm still sucking. That's Austin and and Karna and I
Speaker 1: were marching. Karna and I we first marched on Saturday
Speaker 1: in New York City, and um, we've marched before and
Speaker 1: we and and yeah, that's the I wanted to just
Speaker 1: bring that up because it's just like everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're just doing it now. It's like no, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think if you follow us, and like obviously louder
Speaker 1: and more con now because of the state of the world.
Speaker 1: But I will say I'm thirty four years old. I've
Speaker 1: lived in America my entire life. I have never seen
Speaker 1: what's going on in America or anything like it happened
Speaker 1: during my lifetime. Like I truly feel like, for the
Speaker 1: first time in my lifetime, I'm experiencing America crying. This
Speaker 1: is it's this is different. This is different than any
Speaker 1: other social issue. It's it's just it's it's just different.
Speaker 1: And it was it was I remember when we, you know,
Speaker 1: with the COVID thing happened. I even forgot that the thing.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm like a cough in my mouth. I
Speaker 1: know who cares, Uh no, it's you know, when you
Speaker 1: go out and protests, wear wear a mask. But I
Speaker 1: I thought it was like, wow, we are everybody in
Speaker 1: the world is focusing on this one thing. And then
Speaker 1: and then when a mod Arevery was murdered jogging, and
Speaker 1: then when Brianna Taylor was murdered in her bed by
Speaker 1: a botched RAI go fuck yourself, cops, botch all wrong home,
Speaker 1: wrong home. We shot her in a bed, wrong home.
Speaker 1: Fuck off. Oh yeah, just some tips because I I
Speaker 1: it's funny because you know today it's Wednesday that we're
Speaker 1: recording this, and the great news today was about the
Speaker 1: three other police officers in the George Floyd case being
Speaker 1: um uh arrested and charged with aiding and abetting murder,
Speaker 1: and then like I said, Derek Chavin getting a third
Speaker 1: escalated to second degree murder and then kind of people
Speaker 1: were like and then protest her over and it seems
Speaker 1: like so many people when I was posting about Brianna
Speaker 1: who I posted it. I was up when that news
Speaker 1: broke on the internet in the Internet world. It was
Speaker 1: just like it was like five in the morning and
Speaker 1: I was just still up and um, Yamenico was posting
Speaker 1: about it. Yaminico Saunders, who's been on the show before,
Speaker 1: Great Comic Um, she was posting about it. And then
Speaker 1: I like just stayed up for fucking hours more. And
Speaker 1: one of the things that I learned that I didn't know.
Speaker 1: And part of the reason I'm sure I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's because I'm white and it was never something you know,
Speaker 1: that I thought was going to happen to me or
Speaker 1: affected my life or my family. Was the existence of
Speaker 1: no knock raids, and uh what a no A no
Speaker 1: knock no knock warrants. So, a no knock warrant is
Speaker 1: when you know how you know, yeah, you needed a
Speaker 1: warrant to make an arrest on somebody. Um, it's when
Speaker 1: you can just literally break down someone's door in the
Speaker 1: middle of the night. You don't have to announce yourself
Speaker 1: as a police officer. A lot of times, I apparently
Speaker 1: these people are your plan. You can be in plain
Speaker 1: clothes and so imagine this. You're at home. Brianna was
Speaker 1: twenty six years old. She was an essential work and empty.
Speaker 1: Just so that adds a little more, a little more
Speaker 1: salt to the wound, because it's during COVID she's a
Speaker 1: fucking empty. Um. So she's asleep in her bed her boyfriend's, um,
Speaker 1: I believe asleep as well, but in the home. And
Speaker 1: so they knocked down her door because they have a
Speaker 1: no knock warrant. For a home where they have, you know,
Speaker 1: talk that drug dealings are going it's always drugs, which
Speaker 1: is some research those cops did, and they and they
Speaker 1: she is asleep in her bed and they she her
Speaker 1: eight times and then her boyfriend, of course, doesn't know
Speaker 1: what the funk is going on. They released his nine
Speaker 1: one one call. I listened to it. You can tell
Speaker 1: he's he's scared. He's still he doesn't mention the cops
Speaker 1: because he doesn't know what's the cops. So he's so
Speaker 1: he's calling nine one one. He has no ideas it's
Speaker 1: even the cops yet. So his girlfriend is fucking dead already.
Speaker 1: He has no idea that it was even the cops.
Speaker 1: So at no point have someone is dead, and he
Speaker 1: still doesn't know. And he owned a gun and he
Speaker 1: was got the gun because that's what you fucking do.
Speaker 1: So he gets the gun to defend himself and then
Speaker 1: he gets arrested and they charges got dropped as of
Speaker 1: and that's amazing. I don't I don't. I didn't. I
Speaker 1: didn't hear that those charges got somebody. Maybe they did,
Speaker 1: hopefully they did, but those police officers have not been arrested.
Speaker 1: So this protest is not over. This is not over
Speaker 1: because these people need to be arrested and going forward,
Speaker 1: we need a new system. I started reading about no
Speaker 1: knock warrant on you just sucking go to the Wikipedia page.
Speaker 1: It's you get and in that Wikipedia page alone, you'll
Speaker 1: get a ton of information and constantly people innocent, people dying,
Speaker 1: and people going to the wrong addresses. That's what happened
Speaker 1: in this case. They went to the wrong house, they
Speaker 1: got the address wrong. Some research cops right. And you
Speaker 1: know what you know Brianna Taylor and her boyfriend did
Speaker 1: with their tax money, They helped pay for the police
Speaker 1: salary that murdered them. Are you serious? That's what happens.
Speaker 1: The police are publicly thede a specific donation. I was like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: but your taxes go to public of courses. And it's
Speaker 1: like the police aren't helping. I mean, we've we've talked
Speaker 1: about way back when we were when we did an episode,
Speaker 1: we were reading emails from people who were raped. The
Speaker 1: police not very helpful, the police not very helpful. So
Speaker 1: the idea, and there's been this idea introduced about a
Speaker 1: like defunding the police altogether and having a police free
Speaker 1: society and I can hear the white ladies going, what
Speaker 1: about my car? And you know what, bitch, let's do
Speaker 1: some research. Because I was on one of the Instagram
Speaker 1: pages for this concept and there were you could tell
Speaker 1: that they were they were being so they were they
Speaker 1: were they were talking. It was like they were talking
Speaker 1: to they were putting it in very plain words, very
Speaker 1: nice tone, and I could tell reading that. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: you had to bite your fucking tongue for this copy.
Speaker 1: And I applaud you because damn, that takes a lot
Speaker 1: of work biting your tongue. Holy shit. And they were
Speaker 1: just like you might think, well, it wouldn't that raise
Speaker 1: anarchy to have a police free state, but there have
Speaker 1: been studies that have been that have very valid data
Speaker 1: where um, if you lessen police presence in certain neighborhoods,
Speaker 1: crimes go down because a lot of times police instigate
Speaker 1: the crimes and their brutal and they killed black people.
Speaker 1: And look at what's happening in the protests, reporters and
Speaker 1: and people are getting shot. There's the guy that is
Speaker 1: insanely on American. I don't know if you guys realize
Speaker 1: how un American that is, But to to to have
Speaker 1: our police officers shooting rubber bullets, tear gassing, which is
Speaker 1: not even allowed in war chemical war weapon. UM to
Speaker 1: of our press being treated this way by police are
Speaker 1: pressed who it's their job to show us truthfully and
Speaker 1: honestly what is going on that is beyond anything. And
Speaker 1: I've seen so many journalists on TV say in my
Speaker 1: entire career, I've never been treated like us by the police,
Speaker 1: and you can see how concerned they are, and I
Speaker 1: mean I was. I've been watching live footage of people
Speaker 1: who have so many times during the past week, I've
Speaker 1: been watching footage of people where the feed goes dead,
Speaker 1: the camera falls to the ground because they have to
Speaker 1: fucking run for cover, like multiple reports. David McCatty was
Speaker 1: a UM fifty three year old black gentleman who was
Speaker 1: a businessman, a pillar of the Louisville community, was fatally
Speaker 1: shot by law enforcement officers while protesting police violence. McCatty,
Speaker 1: who owned a barbecue business, regularly fed officers in his
Speaker 1: community for free. They left his body on the street
Speaker 1: for twelve hours. There's a go fund me go fund
Speaker 1: me dot com slash Justice for David m c a
Speaker 1: t If you would like to donate whole man. Motherfucker's
Speaker 1: we got white whitey's. It's time to listen. It's time
Speaker 1: black lives matter, and this is gonna be the forefront
Speaker 1: of the conversation until we figure out systematic reforms and
Speaker 1: then they actually start happening. It's exciting. One of the
Speaker 1: things you can do to make your voice heard as
Speaker 1: an American eighteen years or older is vote. Vote in
Speaker 1: the fucking elections. Vote in your local elections. Vote in
Speaker 1: your local elections. There's two really exciting elections happening in
Speaker 1: twenty that I wanted to highlight really quick. Amy McGrath
Speaker 1: is a woman. She was a former fire pilot. She's
Speaker 1: a white lady, but she's a good white Amy. She's
Speaker 1: running for the Kentucky Senate seat against Mitch McConnell, and
Speaker 1: she is not far behind him. Oh, Mitch McConnell at
Speaker 1: pussy chim, motherfucker, let's get him out. If you live
Speaker 1: in Kentucky and you don't vote on November, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come near home and I'm gonna punch you in the taint.
Speaker 1: Okay uh. If you're in South Carolina, Jamie Harrison, um
Speaker 1: and I read the episode that I did. I was
Speaker 1: reading some of his about sex and Jamie Harrison dot
Speaker 1: com if you want to read about him, Uh, just
Speaker 1: a beautiful story and a story you're like, Oh you are.
Speaker 1: You have existed in this world as a black man,
Speaker 1: and you will fight for equality and you will actually
Speaker 1: make the systematic changes that are necessary. Um. But he's
Speaker 1: running um for the Senate seat against Lindsay Graham, and
Speaker 1: as of yesterday, he was one percentage point above in
Speaker 1: the lead. Oh bye bye, Lindsay Graham. If you live
Speaker 1: in South Carolina and you're eighteen year older and you
Speaker 1: don't vote in twenty November, I'm gonna come to your house.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna punch you in the fucking taint. Chad. You can't.
Speaker 1: You can't. I dare you to tell me to take
Speaker 1: that out at I think because it wasn't it wasn't
Speaker 1: a direct threat. It was a general threat. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: don't know where you live, but if I did, I'd
Speaker 1: punch you in the taint if you didn't vote, Oh
Speaker 1: my god. Um yeah, and I would just go to
Speaker 1: piggyback off pun completely intended off of you know, Christina,
Speaker 1: is what she's saying about the cops. Uh. This is
Speaker 1: something I learned this week that I I can't just
Speaker 1: didn't really, I guess it makes perfect sense, and never
Speaker 1: thought about it. I just never. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: just did never. I didn't know the history of the police.
Speaker 1: To me, it's just like police is a thing that
Speaker 1: places have. Yeah, well after slavery was illegal. So I watched, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I watched this really interesting conversation UM that Angelica Ross
Speaker 1: was having who's a black uh female actor on UM
Speaker 1: just on her Instagram page. A lot of this info
Speaker 1: is so much great information on Twitter and Instagram and
Speaker 1: also like you know, videos first firsthand videos how people
Speaker 1: protesting so they can't be changed to look like, you know,
Speaker 1: just looting by black people, which we gotta say, not
Speaker 1: really happening. It's really it's really that's pretty white people,
Speaker 1: um doing that. And also like cops faking things anyway. UM.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so we have America, which was built on
Speaker 1: stolen land from the indigenous people, uh, and the everything
Speaker 1: here built by black slaves who you know, just if
Speaker 1: Casey forgot about this, Uh, we made them come here.
Speaker 1: They were having a nice life in Africa and then
Speaker 1: we forced them to come here, like no, you're with me, now,
Speaker 1: build my home and work for free. We treated line
Speaker 1: them like ship and sometimes we raped them and had
Speaker 1: kids with them, but we still never treated them like
Speaker 1: human beings. So that's fun. Um As a note, we've
Speaker 1: never officially apologized as a nation made but on reparations.
Speaker 1: Other countries have done this. It's possible, but we just
Speaker 1: haven't did it. We haven't done it. And and and um, yeah,
Speaker 1: apparently right after uh slavery uh was was abolished, UH,
Speaker 1: white people created the American Police Force because they were
Speaker 1: so scared, because they had white guilt, because they knew
Speaker 1: how fucking terribly they had treated these black slaves. And
Speaker 1: they were like, oh man, these black slaves might decide
Speaker 1: to revolt one day if they think about how fucking
Speaker 1: terrible we were to them. And we know they're stronger
Speaker 1: than us, because that's why we made them builds everything,
Speaker 1: because we're pussys bitches. And so they created the police
Speaker 1: force and obviously they you know, we we we read
Speaker 1: the third Watch the thirteenth on Netflix. It's a documentary
Speaker 1: that basically, we'll we'll give you all the information that
Speaker 1: your white little heart could desire. Yeah, and it's and
Speaker 1: it's wild to think about that because you know, it's
Speaker 1: like we can read the laws as they are written,
Speaker 1: but like shit is going on, and I think it's
Speaker 1: so so clear, And I mean I always knew cops
Speaker 1: were corrupt, Like thank God, I grew up in a
Speaker 1: white household that always thought cops were corrupt. My mom,
Speaker 1: very white, never trusted cops. And this is not like
Speaker 1: we have a I have a blue retired lieutenant from
Speaker 1: North New Jersey in my family who is a white
Speaker 1: Jewish man and great guy, but like we hated cops.
Speaker 1: Opening in my cops. Yeah, you would tell me your
Speaker 1: mom was like, cops straight black people, like they're not people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and my mom would, you know, always kind of saying certainly,
Speaker 1: was saying again this week, She's like, think how much
Speaker 1: we don't like cops. Think of all the bad experiences you,
Speaker 1: as a as a white girl have had with cops,
Speaker 1: and then you know, multiply that by about ten thousand,
Speaker 1: and that's what black people, I'm sure our experiencing. And
Speaker 1: I think it's death. As much as it sucks in
Speaker 1: some ways to live in the age of social media,
Speaker 1: and as gruesome as the videos and pictures that we see.
Speaker 1: I think they were really necessary because I can't like
Speaker 1: if you can watch the George Floyd or the Ahmad
Speaker 1: are Very murder videos and you can still utter the
Speaker 1: words all lives matter out of your mouth, special place
Speaker 1: and hell for you. You're not a good person. That's
Speaker 1: not a question. That's not You're not a good person.
Speaker 1: And you can be a good person. Join us, you
Speaker 1: can change, join us. But you're not a good person. Maybe,
Speaker 1: but you can some ways. You might be a good
Speaker 1: family member. In some ways, you're not a good fellow
Speaker 1: human being. You're really not. We have a very unique
Speaker 1: opportunity because the whole country and so many other countries
Speaker 1: are getting behind America. You are in the quest to
Speaker 1: to rebuild a new system that has everybody in mind,
Speaker 1: and that has black lives in mind. And we have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to end the most disgusting legacy of white supremacy.
Speaker 1: And man, I I don't know if I'm gonna have kids.
Speaker 1: I I don't. I always I always want like seven kids.
Speaker 1: And then I got a dog, and I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: good vy quarantine topic. Will they won't they have kids? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're But one of the things I think to myself
Speaker 1: often is if I had a kid, or you know,
Speaker 1: I have a nephew, whatever. I want to be the
Speaker 1: type of of of human being that if I had
Speaker 1: a kid one day, that they could be fucking proud of.
Speaker 1: And I want to add I want to make the
Speaker 1: world a better place. And we all have such a
Speaker 1: unique opportunity to make the world a better place. And
Speaker 1: it is reliant. Black people have been doing the fucking
Speaker 1: work their whole goddamn lives. They're tired. Let white p
Speaker 1: let's fucking educate yourself and and speak out to other
Speaker 1: white people. Are like, okay, it's really important. When Coron
Speaker 1: and I were marching, one of the things I was,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're when you're marching in a Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter protest, that's a black space. Okay, so when
Speaker 1: you were there as a white you are a guest
Speaker 1: in a black space, in a beautiful black space, and
Speaker 1: you fucking show the utmost respect. Okay. I will seeing
Speaker 1: motherfucker's and I saw that. I saw. Of course the
Speaker 1: news has been like looting and riot uh. And I
Speaker 1: saw a lot of the white people. I'm like, why
Speaker 1: the white people, what the fuck? Shut the funk up?
Speaker 1: You're in a black space, you fucking behave you march peacefully?
Speaker 1: White people? What the funk are you doing? Because black
Speaker 1: people are gonna get blamed for it, That's the main thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, Oh, you're such an edgy anarchist with your
Speaker 1: fucking hot topic. Uh, you know a T shirt on
Speaker 1: your gauges, I'm scared in your vans. Yeah. It's like
Speaker 1: we saw firsthand a white girl spray painting n y U.
Speaker 1: Fuck n y U. And and also n y U
Speaker 1: is racist on the n y U buildings and square all.
Speaker 1: We were in there and and we're like up and
Speaker 1: I'm like, it's a white bit. Christina starts sealing, What
Speaker 1: the funk are you doing? Stop doing that? Because it's
Speaker 1: like time and time again black even if you have
Speaker 1: the best of intentions, Um, you're you're not thinking clearly
Speaker 1: about you. It's not about you Black lives and lifting
Speaker 1: them up and making sure our system gets dismantled because
Speaker 1: white white people have this obsession with being the loudest
Speaker 1: voice in the room. We always have, uh. And and
Speaker 1: this is not that you're there to support. You're there
Speaker 1: to take instructions from the black people around you and
Speaker 1: say how can I be of service? What can I
Speaker 1: do to be an ally right now? One of the
Speaker 1: things that's common that me and Christina did was that
Speaker 1: when you when the group that you're marching or protesting
Speaker 1: with needs to come in contact with the police, what
Speaker 1: they will say, white and white passing people go to
Speaker 1: the front, because you need we need to be the barrier.
Speaker 1: Because like, it's so crazy to me that black people
Speaker 1: just it's just second nature that they know that the
Speaker 1: cops aren't gonna shoot out white people. So we're literally
Speaker 1: using us as a human barrier. It's so sad, it's
Speaker 1: so of course we do it. And then I'm just
Speaker 1: so sad. I'm just seeing standing up there. I'm so sad,
Speaker 1: and I and we're fucking white, and we were scared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well when when one of those are the people leading
Speaker 1: the protests, like white people to the front right now?
Speaker 1: And well I was like, all right, we got a job,
Speaker 1: we can help. I'm here to help. What do you
Speaker 1: need me to do? And they're like white people to front.
Speaker 1: I'm like okay. And then we were watching down I
Speaker 1: believe it was Fifth Avenue, and then we were approaching
Speaker 1: what I don't think we made it as North fifty
Speaker 1: seventh Street on Saturday. But uh, and then there was
Speaker 1: a big brigade of police officers and rich here with
Speaker 1: fucking machine guns and stuff. And I was like, I
Speaker 1: guess bullet rubber bullet guns. They're shooting rubber bullets up.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean also can kill people. And if
Speaker 1: you if you, if you search rubber bullets on social media,
Speaker 1: especially like some of these reporters their faces, you'll see
Speaker 1: pictures of them funked up. Their eyes are swollen shut,
Speaker 1: like it's peace of sleeping and testing and that's what
Speaker 1: they're doing. Yeah, and um, and and they're like white
Speaker 1: people to the the front, like yep, this is thank you forgiving,
Speaker 1: like we were happy to do it. And and and
Speaker 1: then we saw the line of cops and like here
Speaker 1: we go. Okay, yeah, this is it. I'm a little scared,
Speaker 1: but it don't matter. And I was like, wow, is
Speaker 1: this again? So many times since since these international protests
Speaker 1: start interrupting, I'm like, is this just one percent of
Speaker 1: what black people go through? The fear And as you
Speaker 1: heard in the emails that we were reading from our
Speaker 1: black listeners, Yeah, So I'm like I talked to myself,
Speaker 1: my Christina, don't be a fucking pussy and handle it.
Speaker 1: And and I was, I was telling him before we
Speaker 1: started recording, I'm like, do you know what I want
Speaker 1: to say about that part of the pro If you
Speaker 1: are a white person involved in a Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: of protest and they say white people to the front,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, and this is my opinion, this is
Speaker 1: not a fact. And if you're a white person and
Speaker 1: you don't go to the front, you're a fucking pussy.
Speaker 1: Because and I know, and I know a lot of
Speaker 1: sensitive don't white people are like, don't even don't even
Speaker 1: show up if you're not gonna tell Yeah, but you
Speaker 1: don't you have it and you need an extra in
Speaker 1: the movie so that we don't need an extra so
Speaker 1: that we can see your fucking Instagram stories And nobody
Speaker 1: got a great person you are. Because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of talk this week about like internet wokeness and fake wokeness.
Speaker 1: And I know there was like a big thing with
Speaker 1: Blackout Tuesday and all those black Black scores and every
Speaker 1: and everything. It's like, Okay, well, it's like we need
Speaker 1: a way to get information. And it certainly has been
Speaker 1: a really great resource. Um, I know, for it personally,
Speaker 1: for UH, for Christina, for our followers, for our our friends,
Speaker 1: and so, I mean the reason, and there's several reasons
Speaker 1: I personally have been been posting a ton. I mean
Speaker 1: one is because I was genuinely fucking upset. And I
Speaker 1: was like too, because it's great timing, because it's COVID
Speaker 1: and there's absolutely no excuse to take every moment of
Speaker 1: your day, like the past seventy two hours straight. It's
Speaker 1: just like on my phone, on my phone, my our
Speaker 1: phones are both doos and it's important donating. Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's just it's and and and then you do. Then
Speaker 1: you do start to question yourself and you go God, like,
Speaker 1: is that what people think? They just think like I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to be a good person. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: I really give a ship. And then I saw so
Speaker 1: many of our UH black comedy colleagues posting these just
Speaker 1: really heartfelt, straight to camera, like heartbreaking actually videos about
Speaker 1: how disappointed they were in so many of their friends
Speaker 1: because their friends weren't saying anything. They're white friends, they're
Speaker 1: non black friends, just weren't saying anything. And I was like,
Speaker 1: all the noise, like I don't care who I don't
Speaker 1: care who the all these asshole other people who follow me,
Speaker 1: who saying this fake wokenus whatever. It's like, I know
Speaker 1: that my friends, my black friends, know that I'm fucking
Speaker 1: got their back, just the same as I would expect
Speaker 1: them to have my back, and just the same as
Speaker 1: they have had my back quite honestly, Um and uh
Speaker 1: and like it means a lot. And I think this
Speaker 1: week I really noticed that because we kind of always
Speaker 1: joke that we have like a fan base of twenty
Speaker 1: two year old white girls, and that's because that's who
Speaker 1: we hear, because white people are very loud. And I
Speaker 1: gotta say, after we started put posting all this stuff
Speaker 1: this week, I have seen comments and had conversations with
Speaker 1: more Black listeners this week than I have the entire
Speaker 1: time of the podcast. Just might might Like the comment
Speaker 1: section was flooded night and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Like these Black listeners they were here the whole time.
Speaker 1: They were just being quiet. And I think in a
Speaker 1: lot of situations, um, black people may be fans of
Speaker 1: something and like they kind of like, I don't know
Speaker 1: if they can trust you, Like they might enjoy your content,
Speaker 1: they might enjoy your comedy, but they go, I don't
Speaker 1: know if yeah, I don't know if this person is
Speaker 1: really an ally And I kind of had a really
Speaker 1: I've had some really great conversations because I did make
Speaker 1: a rule this week. Besides a couple of jobs that I,
Speaker 1: you know, like like to have throw out some dumb
Speaker 1: white people, I basically was like, I only have a
Speaker 1: certain amount of energy and I really really want to
Speaker 1: not waste it on people who kind of don't matter
Speaker 1: right now. And so I really I only responded to
Speaker 1: black people this week, and I really I and I
Speaker 1: like comments and on Twitter, I was like, I'm only
Speaker 1: responding to black people. Those are the only voices I'm
Speaker 1: listening to right now. That's the change, Like they're gonna
Speaker 1: kind of direct the changes that we need to make
Speaker 1: in our lives. And so I had a really great
Speaker 1: conversation UM with And also thank you to those listeners
Speaker 1: who are are who are having these conversations with us,
Speaker 1: because again I can't imagine so much fucking energy you
Speaker 1: must expel, and oh my god, I'm so sorry that
Speaker 1: you have to do that. And I think that's why
Speaker 1: it's really important that you know, going forward, white people
Speaker 1: talk like step in and talk to other white people
Speaker 1: so that black people to give you break, give you break.
Speaker 1: I wish I was telling Cram, like, who wish I wish?
Speaker 1: I wish we could have a reality where all the
Speaker 1: black people just go they go on vacation wherever they
Speaker 1: want to go to, and the and the white people
Speaker 1: fucking deal with the fucking shitty white people and we
Speaker 1: fucking take care of it, and we get exhausted and
Speaker 1: we lose fucking sleep over this ship because my god,
Speaker 1: you've been really picking up tab this whole fucking time,
Speaker 1: and it's white people that are doing this, and so
Speaker 1: it's it's so wow. So thank you to to everybody
Speaker 1: has been writing us and and and having the energy
Speaker 1: to talk to us. I appreciate that. I also giving
Speaker 1: for giving white people seventy five thousand chances like you
Speaker 1: really don't have to end you really have and it
Speaker 1: really wasn't necessary to be honest, and thanks, so thanks,
Speaker 1: that was really nice of you to be really more
Speaker 1: patient than anyone should have to be. Um. And so
Speaker 1: this one uh listener and her name is Trista, and
Speaker 1: I like it's it's been a weird weekend, Like I
Speaker 1: am very you guys see me on social Media'm very
Speaker 1: pro freedom of speech. I'm very uh kind of make
Speaker 1: jokes about everything, and I still feel that way, but
Speaker 1: I think there's like there's points. A comedian's job, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, is to comment on society to be an
Speaker 1: accurate reflection sometimes um a mirror to show how ugly
Speaker 1: society is. And a lot of times comedians are ahead
Speaker 1: of the game with this. But I was like, I think,
Speaker 1: as much as I take my job seriously, for the
Speaker 1: most part, I was like racism because it's been happening
Speaker 1: for so long, racism specifically against black people, um and
Speaker 1: keeping black people down. I was like, that's like larger
Speaker 1: than any commentary as a thirty four year old white
Speaker 1: person that I'm going to make. Like I'm not going
Speaker 1: to be the one with a hot take on this,
Speaker 1: and so I really haven't been posting very many jokes,
Speaker 1: which just normally isn't like me. And it's very hard
Speaker 1: um to be comedians. And also I hate the word activist,
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to use it, but people who
Speaker 1: give a ship because I think everyone should be an
Speaker 1: activist kind of like, by the way, we're defining activists
Speaker 1: and true activists that devote every second of their life
Speaker 1: to this cause they deserve the term. That's a different,
Speaker 1: like it is not an occupation for me, Like I
Speaker 1: always call myself an active citizen, but I think we
Speaker 1: all should be. I'm only doing exactly what I think
Speaker 1: everyone else should be doing. And I think it's and
Speaker 1: hard a lot of times during guys, be fucked for
Speaker 1: Christina and I being comedians who want to be edgy
Speaker 1: comedians who want to not just have these kind of
Speaker 1: like pandering jokes that you see in clips on Comedy
Speaker 1: Central and like little sound bites and like oh that
Speaker 1: was great and digestible and everyone loves it or yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like we don't. We don't. We don't have that tampon joke.
Speaker 1: We don't have that men are bad joke, you know. Uh,
Speaker 1: But we also just because we want to, because that's
Speaker 1: what we've always done, Like it's always been a part
Speaker 1: long before guys, we fucked when we were sitting at
Speaker 1: my apartment in Williamsburg, sorry about last night. Part of
Speaker 1: that was doing comedy that like fucking made a difference
Speaker 1: and with a purpose, and so I was like okay, well,
Speaker 1: and so a lot of times it's hard to be
Speaker 1: funny and also care because people only want to see
Speaker 1: you do one thing. And so when your people who
Speaker 1: are there for your comedy see the see the caring citizenship,
Speaker 1: they get annoyed. And then when people who are there
Speaker 1: carrying citizenship see the comedy, they get annoyed. So the
Speaker 1: bottom line is everyone's always gonna be on happy and offended.
Speaker 1: And so I I thought of like a little like
Speaker 1: a joke tweet that I thought was appropriate and funny,
Speaker 1: just to break up like the monotony of just like
Speaker 1: violence for everyone's sake, um and I and so I
Speaker 1: just wrote I love the hustle of women's clothing brands.
Speaker 1: And then I wrote it like in that up and
Speaker 1: down Uh yeah, like you look like you would do
Speaker 1: if you're like twelve years and it said cop cars
Speaker 1: aren't the only thing on fire emoji this season, BB
Speaker 1: create your riot look now XO XO. Threads so fabulous,
Speaker 1: they'll think you looted shopping bags. And it turned out
Speaker 1: to be very timely because like a day making fun
Speaker 1: of of of fashion brand, I was making fun of
Speaker 1: making advantage like fashion Nova dolls kill and then uh,
Speaker 1: I was making fun of corporate America taking any fucking
Speaker 1: opportunity as we saw with COVID monities off of trauma
Speaker 1: and paint in America. That was the joke. That's how
Speaker 1: I intended it. And I was like, this is a
Speaker 1: joke I feel comfortable about and I think it's still funny,
Speaker 1: and I whatever post it and so mostly everyone fonded well,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, that's cool. Um. And then Trista, UM,
Speaker 1: we had a long back and forth. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the whole thing, but we had a long
Speaker 1: back and forth conversation that initially started as most internet
Speaker 1: conversations do, kind of like with like, um, a very
Speaker 1: emotional displeasure from her end, kind of be like this,
Speaker 1: you know, this isn't funny, you know, but you know whatever,
Speaker 1: and I go okay, Ian looked black woman. I go okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna actually take this conversation because the white people
Speaker 1: I just ignored. Um. I just that's this is I'm celling.
Speaker 1: I'm celebrating black and lives matter by ignoring white voices
Speaker 1: all this month. Um. And so we had a conversation
Speaker 1: back and forth and it lasted all day obviously, like
Speaker 1: just like back and forth slowly every hour or whatever.
Speaker 1: As we picked up our phones, and at the end
Speaker 1: of the conversation, I learned like Trista wasn't actually upset,
Speaker 1: that it wasn't the joke that upset her. It was
Speaker 1: her not knowing whether or not I was a white
Speaker 1: person she could trust and whether or not my intention
Speaker 1: with the joke was that, like, she's like, I never
Speaker 1: know if um white people are laughing with us or
Speaker 1: at us. That was the line that really shocking up
Speaker 1: out And in that moment everything collecked, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad that I had this conversation that I
Speaker 1: didn't lash out and I didn't just mute her restrict
Speaker 1: to or a block or any of those things. And
Speaker 1: I was like, and it was spawned with empathy and compassion.
Speaker 1: And of course there's always going to be, you know,
Speaker 1: a joke that's not for someone, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: Joan Rivers used to say, there's always someone who is
Speaker 1: the butt of every joke, and everyone has is taking
Speaker 1: a different life experience to a show or to comedy
Speaker 1: or whatever. But I was like, but I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is great. She's like, she just doesn't know if
Speaker 1: I'm making fun of you know, black lives matter, or
Speaker 1: if I'm just truly making a joke to lighten the mood,
Speaker 1: which is my job, and I do take my job
Speaker 1: very seriously. And I think that like it's you really
Speaker 1: see the skilled comics um as, the people who are
Speaker 1: are who are able to make good jokes in times
Speaker 1: like these, you know, it's like in the darkness, you
Speaker 1: need the okes the best. And and I also did
Speaker 1: see a lot of black colleagues like making jokes, so
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, a black collarue, you know, my
Speaker 1: black colleagues definitely making jokes. And then you know, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, and then I can, uh, you know, do it.
Speaker 1: But again, it's not about black lives matter, it's not
Speaker 1: about police brutality. So that was just like one example
Speaker 1: of a great conversation that I had where I learned
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, this is great. This is exactly what
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be doing, having fucking conversations with people.
Speaker 1: Um and uh. I also got a lot of d
Speaker 1: ms this week from people who I think, we're uh
Speaker 1: surprised about us being so vocal about black lives matter.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, so that white people, what you know from
Speaker 1: black people again, like I was surprised I wasn't listening
Speaker 1: to the white people, right, yeah, oh, because of that
Speaker 1: sentiment of like I didn't know if if you could
Speaker 1: trust you or not? Right? And I want to just
Speaker 1: read one from a listener named Leo, and he said, Hi,
Speaker 1: crein sliding into the d ms for a very different
Speaker 1: reason than what usually happens when a dude slide into
Speaker 1: your d m s. I want to say that I'm
Speaker 1: personally happy that you're sharing resources and discussions about what's
Speaker 1: going on. I've been a on a massive unfollowing spree
Speaker 1: of people, influencers, those not using their voice to talk
Speaker 1: about Uh. The reality is that we as black people face,
Speaker 1: which is something I've I heard from a lot of
Speaker 1: black people who follow me. He said, I was expecting
Speaker 1: to totally unfollow you. I was directed to your podcast
Speaker 1: about a year or so ago by a white woman
Speaker 1: who I was dating and found your content funny and interesting.
Speaker 1: It wasn't until later that I found out about the episode.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure most some of you are thinking of
Speaker 1: that right now, where you fetishized black men using stereotypes
Speaker 1: that are often used against us by white women. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I didn't unfollowed then, But it wasn't
Speaker 1: until recently that you began to crop up during the
Speaker 1: beginning of the COVID nineteen pandemic. I use that as
Speaker 1: a background to say that I was a hundred million
Speaker 1: percent ready to drop you from the people I follow
Speaker 1: because I wasn't expecting you to talk or raise any
Speaker 1: awareness about what's going on and completely ignore what's happening,
Speaker 1: or even worse, do will one time mention and then
Speaker 1: keep moving. You haven't, And I was delightfully surprised. So
Speaker 1: why the message this isn't as much of a thank
Speaker 1: you as an encouragement to please keep it up throughout
Speaker 1: this process. And and this is important for everyone, ourselves, everyone, um.
Speaker 1: And once the protests stop and the quote attention dies down,
Speaker 1: you reach an audience that I don't for multiple read
Speaker 1: that I don't for multiple reasons. And it's going to
Speaker 1: be a fucking shame that in between this and the
Speaker 1: next quote incident, the people who are speaking up now
Speaker 1: stop uplifting the voices of black people so that your
Speaker 1: audience and the people in your world can hear us consistently,
Speaker 1: not just in moments of pain. I appreciate the empathy,
Speaker 1: and I think that's so often how we how and
Speaker 1: why we hear black voices. And again that's something that
Speaker 1: you're something terrible happy exactly exactly. Yeah, I appreciate the empathy.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the work you're doing right now. I hope
Speaker 1: it continues not just about moments of oppression, but about
Speaker 1: moments of joy and happiness. And please don't stop. I
Speaker 1: would have never been exposed to you if someone in
Speaker 1: your world and year of influence hadn't exposed me to
Speaker 1: you on a random day. I hope you can do
Speaker 1: the reverse for the many black voices who need to
Speaker 1: be heard on the random days that aren't marred with sadness,
Speaker 1: anger and hate. We Yeah, I think, Um, in my head,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm gonna I will be. I will be
Speaker 1: fighting for Black lives matter, for black issues, for for
Speaker 1: a new justice system, to vote racist people out of
Speaker 1: office till the day I die. Because it's not gonna
Speaker 1: go away. I don't know that it's going to go
Speaker 1: away in my lifetime, but I hope it does. But
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I mean, we all know that
Speaker 1: change takes time, um, but it's very encouraging to see
Speaker 1: so many protesters out and that beautiful video. I don't
Speaker 1: know what Bridget was in if it was in New
Speaker 1: York or what of thousands of people man thousands on
Speaker 1: a bridge in a major city laying on their stomachs
Speaker 1: with their hands behind their back. That is, so whoever
Speaker 1: organized that whatever whatever, like who, I don't know what like.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the black lives matter behind that, but the
Speaker 1: vines that specifically were like, let's everybody fucking lie down
Speaker 1: on your stomach with your hands behind your back. What
Speaker 1: a beautiful, peaceful sentiment. And and uh, one of the
Speaker 1: things when Kurt and I marched, other than seeing that
Speaker 1: that white lady tagging fucking y you were and why
Speaker 1: you was racist on the thing, I'm like, what the
Speaker 1: funk are you doing? Um? There was this guy that
Speaker 1: no offense to you chat or the lawyer guy who
Speaker 1: has to make sure we don't say any illegal on here. Um.
Speaker 1: We named him Chad because that's what I would name him.
Speaker 1: Our lawyer's name is Chad. I've never met him. But
Speaker 1: if you look at this guy, you got your chat
Speaker 1: but our chat is is it not that chat? He's
Speaker 1: one of the good chat my chat chat one of
Speaker 1: the good chat. Yeah, the guy chat, but this dude,
Speaker 1: and I kept looking behind me because I kept hearing
Speaker 1: this guy, and I kept hearing loud bangs, and I
Speaker 1: knew everything that was going on. Protests had been happening
Speaker 1: for uhurs at this point, So and I and then
Speaker 1: you start to see crop up. Oh the looters. You're
Speaker 1: taken away from the narrative. And also those little those
Speaker 1: looters look like a little white, So little white white.
Speaker 1: You're in a black space, motherfucker. You respect the cause.
Speaker 1: The most violent videos and I've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: videos this week on twas of cops putting weapons in
Speaker 1: people's hands. The most violent videos by a landslide are
Speaker 1: always cop videos. It's I mean, there's there's so many
Speaker 1: instances protecting. We saw a cop just and this was,
Speaker 1: you know, an attack on a white person, but and
Speaker 1: it was a white person who was disrupting in a
Speaker 1: way and a person who should have been arrested. But
Speaker 1: the manner in which this person was arrested in front
Speaker 1: of me and Christina's and there's beating the ship out
Speaker 1: of his head. There. Yeah, there's footage on my uh
Speaker 1: Instagram of main feed of this incident. Because there there
Speaker 1: was a he's the guy is like fucking five foot
Speaker 1: seven officers like easily could have arrested him. And there's
Speaker 1: five people. There's one guy still told boot just fucking
Speaker 1: kicking him in the rib page rib cage. And when
Speaker 1: these and they're obviously the cop cops all stand around,
Speaker 1: they try to hide it. They try to fucking block
Speaker 1: your cameras. But I was like, no, there's no fucking
Speaker 1: chance in hell I'm not videotaping this ship. And uh
Speaker 1: and this guy, I mean, he emerged, his face was
Speaker 1: just fucking covered in blood and like the brutality, and
Speaker 1: it's like you see the cops. I scared a guitar
Speaker 1: on his back first of all, for this little white
Speaker 1: dude had a guitar on his back. He alleged one
Speaker 1: of the there was a black guy that was riding
Speaker 1: a bike that was marching with us that was like,
Speaker 1: this guy fucking pushed me. The cops didn't get seem
Speaker 1: to give a ship and then for whatever reason, fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes later, eight cops are beating him up. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: I feel like they're not beating them up because they
Speaker 1: pushed a black protester. Because the nature of the way
Speaker 1: these cops have been handling his protests is fucking disgusting.
Speaker 1: And I highly doubt they were like, oh, you pushed him,
Speaker 1: let's beat the ship out of you. But but whatever
Speaker 1: the fun reason it was, they beat the ship out
Speaker 1: of this guy. And I was four ft away and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh god, damn wow.
Speaker 1: Everyone was appalled, and like, I gotta say, like, there
Speaker 1: was a couple of people who who were happy that
Speaker 1: he was gonna be up, but I would say ninety
Speaker 1: percent of the of the crowd of protesting, like white whatever,
Speaker 1: We're like no, We're like, we're like, we don't want
Speaker 1: police brutality of any kind, even if it was a
Speaker 1: white person, we don't care. We don't want police brutality, period,
Speaker 1: end of statement, end of sense, which is like such
Speaker 1: a fucking testament to black people after all the ship
Speaker 1: they've been through with the cops, that they are still
Speaker 1: like yeah, no, no, no, we don't want this bad
Speaker 1: ship happening to anyone. Like they still have our backs,
Speaker 1: even though we never have their fucking backs. And wow, wow,
Speaker 1: what a beautiful showcase showing of their humanity in a
Speaker 1: way that did not have to be like they wow, Wow,
Speaker 1: I am I am taken taken aback by by that
Speaker 1: and uh and but this fucking Chad guy, not our
Speaker 1: lord Chad. But that's just if you saw me like
Speaker 1: he was marching with no shirt on like it was,
Speaker 1: you know, if he had a shooes on is blonde,
Speaker 1: shaggy hair with a backwards hat and a skateboard like
Speaker 1: the but on the boardwalkingtnsch so cow bro and he
Speaker 1: kept going Black Lives Matter and it was just jarring,
Speaker 1: and I kept looking over. I'm like, oh, is that
Speaker 1: white Chad saying that? And then I kept hearing bangs
Speaker 1: and he was slamming his fucking skateboard on the street
Speaker 1: signs above people that were like walking and not protesting,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what the funk is your problem? Bre Like,
Speaker 1: what the funk is your deal? And then the there's
Speaker 1: so many videos about white extremists infiltrating the Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter protests and specifically inciting violence. And let me tell you, honey,
Speaker 1: there is a special place in hell for you. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's a special place in hell. And if you are
Speaker 1: a white person marching in Black Lives Matter, you are
Speaker 1: in a black space. One of the things that I
Speaker 1: personally do is I'm on the lookout for the bad whitey's.
Speaker 1: I'm on the fucking looking people look and confront yes
Speaker 1: and film them and say what the funk are you doing.
Speaker 1: There's videos from Los Angeles. From the videos to us
Speaker 1: if you need them, amplifi, sir. There's a cop car
Speaker 1: that was like a model of a cop car. So
Speaker 1: first of all, the vehicle was not like the cop
Speaker 1: cars updated vehicles. And then these three white people and
Speaker 1: they and the guy pointed on the video and in
Speaker 1: the video as he's filming this, he's like, this is weird,
Speaker 1: this is fishy. I feel like this is weird. And
Speaker 1: then he points it out and he pauses the video.
Speaker 1: And these people have um water bottles filled with uh oil,
Speaker 1: like you know, flammable you know, flammable liquid, putting it
Speaker 1: in the cop car, lighting it on fire, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you motherfucker's are coming into this fucking movement and you're
Speaker 1: trying to make black people look back. You're trying to
Speaker 1: make the movement look back, and you're taking what Oh
Speaker 1: I swear to God, I'm gonna punch you, and I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm gonna do Chad our lard Chad. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say what I want to do them, but wow,
Speaker 1: because it's two types of people that are in in infiltrating.
Speaker 1: There's you know, people on the left, two in their
Speaker 1: hearts to believe that black lives matter, but also have
Speaker 1: this fucking uh anarchist wet dream uh and they and
Speaker 1: they won't and they don't think that, you know, the
Speaker 1: police state should exist, but they're certainly not there for
Speaker 1: just black lives matter, and that's what we're sucking doing now.
Speaker 1: And also you're still not fucking checking your white privilege
Speaker 1: because as you can see on many you know news stations,
Speaker 1: it's black people who are getting blamed for the looting,
Speaker 1: the writing, all the behaviors that you were doing. And
Speaker 1: then of course there's the people on the right, the
Speaker 1: proud boys, the fucking all right, you know racists, you know,
Speaker 1: neo Nazi types, um. And those people are usually pretty
Speaker 1: vocal about who they are. But it's like watch, I
Speaker 1: mean that I saw a video of a fucking guy
Speaker 1: go in with an electric bow and arrow. The cops
Speaker 1: absolutely cannot be trusted. Cops, any any cop, any cop,
Speaker 1: not I'm just just any cop. I saw footage of
Speaker 1: UH cops pretending, well they didn't they were. They took
Speaker 1: a knee, you know, allah Colin Kaepernick UH with the protesters.
Speaker 1: The protesters were so happy that the police had had
Speaker 1: made that gesture meant so much to them. And then
Speaker 1: as soon as everyone was kneeling and the protesters were
Speaker 1: closer to the cops, UH, they tear The cops tear
Speaker 1: gas the protesters. They used it as a trick, which
Speaker 1: is something that I heard about learning about the Holocaust.
Speaker 1: If you don't know, if you remember this, they used
Speaker 1: to tell come take a ship. They used to tell
Speaker 1: the Holocaust prisoners to come that they were going to
Speaker 1: come take a shower, and then instead of turning on water,
Speaker 1: they were turned on gas and kill them. So that's
Speaker 1: the kind of sucking tactics the police are using, and
Speaker 1: don't think they're not. I've seen videos of police setting
Speaker 1: up piles of bricks so that bricks are around to
Speaker 1: encourage people UH to throw them through the windows of building.
Speaker 1: I've seen video of cops throwing bricks through and just
Speaker 1: stroying property themselves. Are throwing a tear gas bomb into
Speaker 1: a car with a pregnant woman breaking glass and tasting people.
Speaker 1: And there there's been a lot of punching through windows,
Speaker 1: dragging black people out. This is not people are still
Speaker 1: getting killed during protests. Its to happen. There's a couple
Speaker 1: of people who have been killed during protests. Still, Um,
Speaker 1: I've seen what I'm trying to think. There's just been
Speaker 1: so much just saying, oh, so many videos, so many
Speaker 1: videos of cops uh ruining, destroying and stealing protests supplies,
Speaker 1: stabbing bottles of water, throwing bottles of water into the backe.
Speaker 1: And first of all, like, if you are a police
Speaker 1: officer and you have weapons, you have access to weapons,
Speaker 1: and you are not trained in being in your body
Speaker 1: and being compassionate and meditated, you are you are. You're
Speaker 1: like a fucking hound dog getting sent out Like it's disgusting.
Speaker 1: And so so these police officers losing their temper and
Speaker 1: pushing people, I'm like, are you fucking kidding me? It
Speaker 1: is your job. Part of your job is to serve
Speaker 1: the people and understand the community that you're serving, and
Speaker 1: to be in touch with the communities that you're serving,
Speaker 1: and what what pain these communities go through And you're
Speaker 1: gonna be like and you're gonna be a little white
Speaker 1: bitch about it with like the arrogance and and the
Speaker 1: look in some of these it's it's this, it's just
Speaker 1: like you know that that that certain type of white
Speaker 1: lady that you're in the line back of in J. C.
Speaker 1: Penny And she's like, I'm gonna explode and you're like, what, no,
Speaker 1: calm down. There's this white male type that is so
Speaker 1: white rimmed sunglasses. That's what they got. A little smash mouth,
Speaker 1: but they don't like smash them out. They look like Nascar,
Speaker 1: And hey, I like Nascar, but they're not the good
Speaker 1: kind of Nascar fans and and and they have this
Speaker 1: hatred in their eyes. And I'm like, what are you
Speaker 1: so afraid of? Little man? What are you so afraid of? You?
Speaker 1: Little man? Do you think you're a fucking man? Because
Speaker 1: you push these people? The evil in your little white
Speaker 1: eyes is so disheartening. And and and and I think
Speaker 1: back to the documentary about the Stanford Prison Experiment, which
Speaker 1: was basically um an interest in what humanity is capable
Speaker 1: of doing when given unchecked power. And so you mix
Speaker 1: the racism that's four years old in this country with
Speaker 1: unchecked power and it's the most brutal vision, is disgraceful
Speaker 1: display of what humanity is capable of, and and and
Speaker 1: the and it's so important to be seeing everybody peacefully
Speaker 1: protest on the news. I wish the news would talk
Speaker 1: about that more than the writing and um. And we're
Speaker 1: at a precipice where we can stop it. And part
Speaker 1: of what's to stop it is to reform how and
Speaker 1: even it consider if we if we need police, where's
Speaker 1: the where's the what is the role in the police
Speaker 1: officers life? There's there's some great cops out there, but
Speaker 1: fuck that they should all be fucking great. If you're
Speaker 1: a cop, you shouldn't be fucking applauded for being nice
Speaker 1: to a black person. Are you fucking kidding me? It's
Speaker 1: like saying I love my boyfriend, he doesn't rape me.
Speaker 1: He is great. That's why I have to roll my
Speaker 1: eyes every time. And I mean, and there was the
Speaker 1: cop neeled cool, the fucking public servant that you pay
Speaker 1: his fucking salary, you know what I mean? Like, there's
Speaker 1: a video circulating from you know, and I first thought
Speaker 1: it from Michael Moore because he's from there, from Flint,
Speaker 1: Michigan with the police officer, the sheriff there, who is
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's a great guy and a great cop.
Speaker 1: Um and you know, hugging black shout his weapons down,
Speaker 1: marching with them. Uh, and exactly that's what you should
Speaker 1: be doing. And it's like during during a during a protest.
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons in theory that I love
Speaker 1: America is because as an American citizen, we all have
Speaker 1: the right to peacefully protest and when police officers and
Speaker 1: this is how the laws state and stated certainly not
Speaker 1: how things go down, and certainly not during these protests. Uh.
Speaker 1: For first or some of them, of many of them,
Speaker 1: is the police officers are are there just so you
Speaker 1: guys know, as protesters, they are supposed to be there
Speaker 1: to protect you. And if a counter protest comes, if
Speaker 1: someone wants to come and and and and neo Nazi
Speaker 1: wants to come and be like fucking kill all black people,
Speaker 1: well I don't think you can say a threat, but
Speaker 1: like you can be like I hate black people. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's all. There will also be police officers protecting them,
Speaker 1: and that is also their legal right. So those can
Speaker 1: both those can both exist. But it's you know, and
Speaker 1: and the police testing they have different histories. The police
Speaker 1: are supposed to be there so that, you know, to
Speaker 1: protect everyone's welfare and so obviously so that the two
Speaker 1: conflicting viewpoint protesters don't get into a fucking physical altercation
Speaker 1: that is in theory while the cops are there. But
Speaker 1: make no Moody told me that. I was like, wait, really, wow,
Speaker 1: that's in the that's in their book. That's rely. It's
Speaker 1: very important to know your rights as a protester. Don't
Speaker 1: just go out because it's a fun thing to do.
Speaker 1: Don't bring a white claw and fucking make a cute
Speaker 1: sign with glitter. Is not a time to brunch, bitches,
Speaker 1: It's a game. Sober. Show up in sneakers were the
Speaker 1: thing that we're we're your mask. A lot of the
Speaker 1: protests are asking you justin black dressing, justin whatever the
Speaker 1: organizer asking you to, requesting him to do. Chant the
Speaker 1: chance loudly and proudly of whatever. Everyone is chanting with you. Um,
Speaker 1: and but make yourself. Don't don't try to be the
Speaker 1: biggest voice. You know, we would never recommend, especially to women,
Speaker 1: that you make yourselves small. This is this is an
Speaker 1: instance where I'm gonna recommend you make yourself small uh
Speaker 1: bond to respond when you are needed. But like after that,
Speaker 1: you're listening, you're following the lead of the black people
Speaker 1: in the group that you're marching with. Very important obviously
Speaker 1: because all white town just do whatever the white person says.
Speaker 1: But organizing be on top of that white person to
Speaker 1: make sure they're on And unfortunately it's not helpful to like,
Speaker 1: you know, to I know, these viral videos and stuff
Speaker 1: are fun, but I've seen a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of people saying, like it's not helping black lives matter
Speaker 1: to uh circulate these couple of you know, cute videos
Speaker 1: of the of cops being nice, because there's so much more,
Speaker 1: because that's what the cops already should be, and why
Speaker 1: are we fucking applauding and going that should be the norm. Now,
Speaker 1: my white little white head can rest easy because officer
Speaker 1: officer Rob was nice. That's what he should be, because
Speaker 1: the dignity of being a police officer should even though
Speaker 1: the police were formed after slavery was abolished, that they
Speaker 1: can basically get to slavery, what is to protect and serve? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's what that should that should be fucking happening.
Speaker 1: The police should be forming a bond with their community
Speaker 1: that they serve. So that's not applause worthy. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: another thing is like and so I say, I do
Speaker 1: think that these police brutality videos need to be circulated
Speaker 1: because to me, like video if you can, if you
Speaker 1: can watch these police brutality videos and see just so many,
Speaker 1: hundreds of hundreds of different ones, and if you can
Speaker 1: honestly say to yourself, like, nothing is wrong in the
Speaker 1: police force. You killed many animals as a child. You're
Speaker 1: mentally ill, you're mentally ill. And and but but also
Speaker 1: you know, be uh. I want you to get the
Speaker 1: help you need. Know where you're posting these videos if
Speaker 1: you and these are videos that your white friends need
Speaker 1: to see. Do not retraumatize people. A lot of my
Speaker 1: black friends and colleagues I saw being like, please stop
Speaker 1: sending me police to time videos like this. And you know,
Speaker 1: and this is the time when you maybe put a
Speaker 1: trigger warning for so your black friends don't have to
Speaker 1: fucking see this, you know, putting your Instagram story where
Speaker 1: it's like they can press story if they want to
Speaker 1: or don't have to. But this is this is a
Speaker 1: video to have on hand if you're fucking uncle or
Speaker 1: Rampa or whatever wants to say something racist or shitty
Speaker 1: or pro Trump over the holidays, fucking ruined Christmas dinner.
Speaker 1: You've had enough for Christmas? Is you know what is
Speaker 1: Christmas about? Oh? Christ? Oh a lot of good he
Speaker 1: did us. You've had enough to Christmas is. I I
Speaker 1: can pretty much guarantee you. You know, you've probably never
Speaker 1: had a Christmas were some police officer broke into your
Speaker 1: house and shot you while you were sleeping. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: true Christmas Santa um so yeah, yeah yeah, And and listen, listen,
Speaker 1: we're we're God corn and I've all we've been doing
Speaker 1: is reading and posting and donating and listening and doing
Speaker 1: doing what white people need to be doing right now.
Speaker 1: And I but I also want to put out there
Speaker 1: like minimum yeah for real, like that's and we are nothing.
Speaker 1: We are not perfect voices because I never want to
Speaker 1: make you do this, you know, but but in this instance,
Speaker 1: I definitely feel very comfortable telling white people the certain
Speaker 1: things that we've been saying and listening to black voices
Speaker 1: and places to donate. It's so important. But but you know,
Speaker 1: the the in fighting is really uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a waste of time and energy and is honestly just
Speaker 1: disrespectful to black feet people who have been through a
Speaker 1: fucking knot. Yeah, yeah, just just stop. I don't want
Speaker 1: to hear you, but but but but but I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear but I'm also this and I've been
Speaker 1: through this. Great, We'll get to you next because guess what, Like,
Speaker 1: if we're going by Delhi status, they have black people
Speaker 1: to have the number I have number one because they
Speaker 1: and and I know this is gonna sound insensitive to immigrants,
Speaker 1: but like, truly, America was built on the black backs
Speaker 1: and on the blacks, on the backs of black slaves,
Speaker 1: and we have to take care of black people in
Speaker 1: this country. We have ignored it since literally the beginning
Speaker 1: of this country. And that is why I think it's
Speaker 1: the root of so many problems that we have. Here's
Speaker 1: why people feel it's just it's just so bad. It's
Speaker 1: so bad. And you've got to understand that. Yes, and
Speaker 1: what what a time, what an opportunity that we have
Speaker 1: right now to help insight to instigate change positive chain
Speaker 1: the tools we have, yes, social media, keep filming. Um so,
Speaker 1: so this is this is a sad time, This is
Speaker 1: a traumatic time for black folks. Uh, And this is
Speaker 1: a opportune time for white folks to step the funk up.
Speaker 1: It's not about you get over COVID fucking put the
Speaker 1: bi bubble bath on hold. Enough enough the self care,
Speaker 1: the self care and white people you have have taken
Speaker 1: upon themselves white people for like a hard day. It's
Speaker 1: like your boss mean to you at your executive assistant position, JP,
Speaker 1: get over. And I stopped to Haven, you know, I
Speaker 1: stopped to Haven when we when we first did guys
Speaker 1: who funding we heard about all the rapes that happened
Speaker 1: just all the time, and so frequently. I was like, oh, word, okay,
Speaker 1: And then I started looking at and it's always and
Speaker 1: I don't it's just this is it's what it is.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. It's always the we know,
Speaker 1: we know a lot of we gotta I think I
Speaker 1: think after seven years we're like kind of experts on
Speaker 1: white at least see young white winds. Yes. And I
Speaker 1: didn't want to be, but I am. And that's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm happy you're here, white ladies, but little not baby cakes.
Speaker 1: We are going to make a difference in this world,
Speaker 1: and we are going to help elevate the black voices
Speaker 1: and we are going to help dismantle the system that
Speaker 1: is made to oppress black people. And we are going
Speaker 1: to be allies, and we are going to listen, and
Speaker 1: we are going to educate ourselves. Okay, and we're gonna read.
Speaker 1: And I like, take your babble that, but read and
Speaker 1: have conversations with your white friends and do your due diligence. Okay,
Speaker 1: be the person that your future child will be proud
Speaker 1: to say, that's my fucking mother, or that's my fucking father,
Speaker 1: my father and mother was a fucking warrior or whatever.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, fight for this this cause.
Speaker 1: And I and I and I don't know if we
Speaker 1: have super fucking racist people listening to us. I assume
Speaker 1: yes we do. I saw them this week, a lot
Speaker 1: of them. I followed me, thank god, thank god. Well,
Speaker 1: but but I hope if you're listening to this, if
Speaker 1: you're a white racist listening to this, sorry about this
Speaker 1: night show at gmail dot com. If you want, let's
Speaker 1: let's have your non black racist because I saw a
Speaker 1: lot of those. I gotta say, we talk. We spent
Speaker 1: all the time talking about white people and the main
Speaker 1: you're the main problem. I gotta say, I saw. I
Speaker 1: saw a good number of other races being racist against
Speaker 1: black people too. You don't get a fucking pass, you
Speaker 1: don't get pas, but what you are that we are
Speaker 1: the main problem. Okay. I am a white woman. It
Speaker 1: is our duty to be an integral part in this movement. Okay,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do that, and it's gonna be great,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna work hard, we're gonna have difficult conversations,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna inconvenience ourselves when it's okay yeah, because
Speaker 1: that's that's be the person your future daughter or someone
Speaker 1: could be, or transgender child can be fucking proud to
Speaker 1: say that's my mom, that's my dad, that's my non
Speaker 1: binary parents, right yeah, Because I mean, I I think
Speaker 1: I think at this this point in history, we all
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of there's we know in our
Speaker 1: hearts as a lot of things that we could be doing,
Speaker 1: but we're like kind of not in a rush because
Speaker 1: they aren't things that interfere with our daily life. So
Speaker 1: while in theory, yes, many of us believe that black
Speaker 1: lives matter, we do very little in our daily lives
Speaker 1: to walk that, to make that that walk baby, to
Speaker 1: make that so to make that, to make that a truth,
Speaker 1: to make it to show people that we really, um,
Speaker 1: we really care about that. And uh, I think it's
Speaker 1: been yeah, really loud this week, and so a couple
Speaker 1: of people, you know, a lot of people are be like,
Speaker 1: I'm when do I nail? I don't know what to do? Well.
Speaker 1: Number one, press fucking Google dot com, follow a fucking
Speaker 1: hashtag bat black Lives Matter people, We really really broke
Speaker 1: it down for you, and read multiple sources. I encourage
Speaker 1: you to research the sources. Who owns that newspaper that
Speaker 1: you're reading, what company owns it? You can find that
Speaker 1: information out. It's hard to google. So sometimes it's a
Speaker 1: pain in the ass, and you know what, sometimes it is,
Speaker 1: but it's okay. It's an inconvenience that us white ladies
Speaker 1: are willing to take, aren't we? And white people in
Speaker 1: general with people, white men have been thinking they were
Speaker 1: getting all the way with a lot calling people. If
Speaker 1: I see one more, if I hear one more white
Speaker 1: guy called someone Karen, I will shank you. Okay, I chat?
Speaker 1: Do you want to delete that enough? Do you think
Speaker 1: you're gonna fucking push this on us? You pieces of ship? No,
Speaker 1: it's not happening on my watch, just because a lot
Speaker 1: of fucking women are passive like you haven't met me yet.
Speaker 1: I will fucking annihilate you. I swear to fucking God.
Speaker 1: You're not You're not funny when you say, Karen, what
Speaker 1: the fuck? Karen's the only one who fuck you? See?
Speaker 1: Better be fucking nicer to Karen anyway. Oh oh okay,
Speaker 1: and um, so I and this week alone, I've I've
Speaker 1: been exposed to so many uh and by exposed, I
Speaker 1: meant I I took the time to find resources. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we have our classics, we have Black Lives Matter, we
Speaker 1: have n double a C P. Another there's many Minneapolis
Speaker 1: Freedom Fund, they've been getting a lot of donations. So
Speaker 1: they recommended um giving money to an organization called one
Speaker 1: is called Reclaim the Block that is really good and
Speaker 1: again Southern Probably Law Center, Black Southern Law Centers, so good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Visions Collective, they're good. Marshall College Fund. Yeah, let's lift
Speaker 1: up Black voice and as make this world a better place.
Speaker 1: We did you just say Black Visions Collective? I did? Yes? Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's the other one. Yeah, um A C l
Speaker 1: U Christine and I both members again not saying that
Speaker 1: to make us seem better, and you have any kind
Speaker 1: of extra income is your duty and you're not giving
Speaker 1: a little bit back to the community. What are you doing.
Speaker 1: Don't buy the Star but it cappuccino that's six dollars
Speaker 1: because you get the atra shot. Leave that for next week.
Speaker 1: And there's there's not there's not excuse to do nothing
Speaker 1: if you have COVID. Guess what COVID doesn't is a
Speaker 1: long thing to sign a petition. Okay, your hands work.
Speaker 1: You don't have COVID at the hands. Get on the
Speaker 1: fucking internet. One time I was in Central Park and
Speaker 1: I was with my friend I don't talk to anymore,
Speaker 1: but I remember. I remember I was talking about somebody
Speaker 1: and I was like, get somebody was like, asked me
Speaker 1: to do something for them. I'm like, you got hands.
Speaker 1: And then right as I said that, a person with
Speaker 1: no hands but jawn bid I was like, I'm so sorry,
Speaker 1: Oh my god. And then in closing, I want to
Speaker 1: read something that it's just the thing things that we
Speaker 1: can do. Um. Uh, you might you might see popping
Speaker 1: up the hashtag eight can't wait. Um. I've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of people and Matt Richards is the one who
Speaker 1: posted this. It's eight reforms that could dramatically reduce police violence.
Speaker 1: Because even if you're still racist after all, the ship
Speaker 1: that mean and Christina still said, UM, know that police
Speaker 1: brutality can also happen to you, and probably will happen
Speaker 1: to you if you have an interaction with the police,
Speaker 1: because they've gone they're they're drunk with power. They're drunk
Speaker 1: with power, and it's bad. It's bad. I saw I
Speaker 1: saw a little white girls literally on their phones just
Speaker 1: getting swatted like flies by people's arms, and I did
Speaker 1: not and I say, that's not okay, it's okay, it's
Speaker 1: not okay, okay, it's okay. I know, but the police
Speaker 1: are yeah, exactly even please, I encourage you to watch
Speaker 1: the Standford Prison Experiment documentary because that shows exactly what
Speaker 1: human beings do when they are even given an imaginary
Speaker 1: sense of power. Think of your boss. You've everyone's had
Speaker 1: a boss who is drunk with power, thinking thinks you've
Speaker 1: ever had and they haven't done. And riot gear and
Speaker 1: a team of people who don't give a ship out
Speaker 1: your life and will not punish them for for doing
Speaker 1: things to you. And I gotta say, I gotta say
Speaker 1: if you're I know, we do have police officers listening,
Speaker 1: and we're and we're something not saying you're all bad.
Speaker 1: We're saying, but we're saying you should all be great.
Speaker 1: Because the police, the police force as an American service,
Speaker 1: is bad. And so even if there are good police
Speaker 1: officers does mean part of system. The system itself does
Speaker 1: not work and is racist inherently. So even if you
Speaker 1: are a good police officer, like I don't know, you
Speaker 1: can change, you can. You're not killing black people. Thanks
Speaker 1: for hugging a black person. I think you're hugging a
Speaker 1: black person on video. Yeah yeah, like cool, cool, but
Speaker 1: like she've been doing that first. It reminds me of
Speaker 1: that Chris quote. I'm just gonna quote it real quick.
Speaker 1: I know it's hard being a cop, but some jobs
Speaker 1: can have bad apples. Everybody's got to be good, like pilots.
Speaker 1: American Amilanes can't be like most of our pilots, like
Speaker 1: the land. But we just got some bad apples. I
Speaker 1: like to crash in the mountains. We are way too
Speaker 1: okay with the acceptance of police officers that are brutally
Speaker 1: murdering black people. Somebody tweeted and I forget who it was,
Speaker 1: and I forget exactly what they said, but it was
Speaker 1: basically like when a teacher is outed for raping a
Speaker 1: student or having sexual relationship the student. You don't see
Speaker 1: here the teachers shut the funk up and be silent.
Speaker 1: They're glad that fucking teacher's gone. What the funk? Police officers,
Speaker 1: why would you want standing up against the actions of
Speaker 1: your ship racist, murderous colleague. We we we and we
Speaker 1: see these people just doing nothing. Uh? These and and
Speaker 1: and police officers included the Asian police officers standing a
Speaker 1: wash outside the cars. George Floyd is beat the lead. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm I can't even talk anymore, you know, beat beat
Speaker 1: down inside the car. I don't know if you guys
Speaker 1: saw the new video emerge. They beat him down inside
Speaker 1: the car and then move him to the outside of
Speaker 1: the car on the ground, nee on the neck. Okay,
Speaker 1: this Asian I almost I mean, I don't have you
Speaker 1: know more than Derek Chavin, but like, no, but the
Speaker 1: pussy ass, fucking lemming behavior of three to the guy,
Speaker 1: the Asian guys, fucking officer just standing there as someone
Speaker 1: in his videotaping. I mean, obviously it's a it's a
Speaker 1: black a black man videoing this, so he's not gonna
Speaker 1: do anything to Ship. He'll get fucking murdered. Expect him
Speaker 1: to get shot down, you know, to save the life
Speaker 1: of someone he doesn't know. But it's like he's screaming,
Speaker 1: he can't breathe. You're going to kill him. You'll hear
Speaker 1: him screaming. And this officer is fucking doing nothing like
Speaker 1: I honestly, the other two I don't know who the
Speaker 1: other two were. I can't. I think they were. I
Speaker 1: think they were when I saw their faces, like they
Speaker 1: were like they had to like freeze frame like footage
Speaker 1: of it because there's like multiple angles because they got
Speaker 1: some security footage I think from a store and stuff
Speaker 1: that they got different angles as the week went on.
Speaker 1: But it's like just to do, just to do, just
Speaker 1: to do nothing. A man, a person is getting murdered.
Speaker 1: Are you fucking kidding me? That's how you police motherfucker's
Speaker 1: It is so gross. And then people go, well, what
Speaker 1: would these black people do? Whatever? Number one, I'll give
Speaker 1: a ship what anyone was doing. Everyone in America has
Speaker 1: the right to uh their trial and a jury of
Speaker 1: their peers, and that is everyone. I don't care if
Speaker 1: you're fucking serial killer. Everyone has that fucking right. That's
Speaker 1: why we live here. And and let's just take a
Speaker 1: moment to draw this very just you know, it compares
Speaker 1: it again, if you're white person and you're still listening,
Speaker 1: you're still like, I don't get it. Okay. But also, uh,
Speaker 1: George Floyd was was accused of writing a forged check.
Speaker 1: Dylan Roof went into a black church and shot up
Speaker 1: black people because he is a racist fuck And they
Speaker 1: brought him over to the police office, to the to
Speaker 1: the whatever the fun place. They brought him to in
Speaker 1: a bullet proof vest. Okay, So if that does not
Speaker 1: tell you, hey, motherfucker's all lives don't matter, so shut
Speaker 1: the funk up. Yeah, that's why we say, that's why
Speaker 1: we need to be saying black lives matter, because if
Speaker 1: black lives actually mattered, that would not be the case. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And we don't take care, we don't take care of
Speaker 1: our black citizens equally because people say stupid like it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of crime in black communities or black
Speaker 1: people need to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. And
Speaker 1: I saw this really great quote that I had actually
Speaker 1: never heard from Dr Martin Luther King before and I know,
Speaker 1: and also please stop using the saying quoting Dr Martin
Speaker 1: Luther King white people to defend your racist views or like,
Speaker 1: because they'll they'll like, there's been this like kind of
Speaker 1: trends online of white people Dr Martin Luther King quotes
Speaker 1: to fit their narrative and be like, yeah, he would
Speaker 1: have not wanted you don't know what you want. You
Speaker 1: don't know him. And also, oh my god, the best
Speaker 1: part was like the people like responding to like his
Speaker 1: fucking daughter and stuff and so on on social media,
Speaker 1: like they were fucking white splaining to his own kids
Speaker 1: what Dr Martinarth the King would have started. But but
Speaker 1: but this is a longer work, babis. But Dr King
Speaker 1: said it is a cruel just to tell a bootless
Speaker 1: man to lift himself up by the bootstraps. And I
Speaker 1: thought that was such a great quote. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we didn't even we we as a country didn't even
Speaker 1: give black people they We said, okay, you're not a
Speaker 1: slave anymore, and then we get we and you also
Speaker 1: get nothing. We didn't give them. We didn't give them
Speaker 1: anything to start. Imagine if I plucked one of the
Speaker 1: people out of our guys. We sucked audiences and was like, okay,
Speaker 1: you're free now, but you don't have you don't get anything.
Speaker 1: You don't get a credit card, you don't get your phone,
Speaker 1: redline your home so that you don't get home. You
Speaker 1: you you are in a school district with a lower
Speaker 1: tax rate so that you have a bigger class size,
Speaker 1: and your teachers are underpaid. See you later. I hope
Speaker 1: you do well. And um, so they and back to
Speaker 1: what we were looping in that we just got obviously mad,
Speaker 1: very very been very bad. And again yeah, um and
Speaker 1: and and so Matt Richards put posted the eight reforms
Speaker 1: that could dramatically reduce police violence and so things that
Speaker 1: we need to have that to happen right away within
Speaker 1: the police forces, to ban chokeholds and strangle holds. This
Speaker 1: isn't w W eight. You're not the rock. Not a
Speaker 1: big ask, not a big ask. That's not that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Required de escalation, Require a warning before shooting. Can you
Speaker 1: let me know I'm shoot, I'm gonna shoot. You gotta
Speaker 1: say that, you gotta say that, exhaust all other means
Speaker 1: before shooting. That's what I've been saying that what are
Speaker 1: we not tasting people. You have a taser fucking taste
Speaker 1: tasting Believe, why are we shooting people before we taste them?
Speaker 1: That is crazy. We don't do that to animals. The
Speaker 1: amount that the knee jerk reaction is let's kill them,
Speaker 1: um duty to intervene and top excessive force by other officers.
Speaker 1: So yeah, encourage those good apples that we have to
Speaker 1: fucking go in and not be afraid of the system,
Speaker 1: to stand up and say no, you're doing something wrong.
Speaker 1: Like we saw the viral video, the woman officer was
Speaker 1: walking away from a group of protesters who he had
Speaker 1: of course, he had white off white police officer look
Speaker 1: in his eye and the white smirk on his on
Speaker 1: his face. There is a a young black woman kneeling
Speaker 1: on the ground, hands in the air um as part
Speaker 1: of the protests and as and she's on her knees
Speaker 1: in the post. As she he walks away, he just
Speaker 1: swings his his hand like a little boy and knocks
Speaker 1: her over. Little bitch boy. The black female police officer
Speaker 1: sees that and go book wild on him, and it's
Speaker 1: fucking great, and that we we need everyone. We we
Speaker 1: need to speak up. Silence is being complicit I don't
Speaker 1: know how hard that, and I'm top. But this has
Speaker 1: been happening for my whole lifetime, certainly, And I was
Speaker 1: silent and I was fucking complicit until not that long ago,
Speaker 1: so I am not. So this is not a fucky
Speaker 1: stupid ship. Join us, okay, because we are no longer
Speaker 1: silent and we are no longer complicit, and we the
Speaker 1: door is wide fucking open for you to join and
Speaker 1: be on the right side. Yeah, and and and be mauthia,
Speaker 1: especially if you're if you're white, like I mean things
Speaker 1: like I mean, you know, I love to start a fight.
Speaker 1: So like I've heard people call people the Edward and
Speaker 1: like a mcdonllards or something, and I fucking said stuff.
Speaker 1: And I mean, that's just because I had the I
Speaker 1: mean privilege of growing up with Di Fi as my mom, honestly,
Speaker 1: because she's been God bless my mom. She's been fighting
Speaker 1: racism in fast food restaurants verbally, verbal obtercations. She's a
Speaker 1: verbal altercation specialist. I will say that, um, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we celebrated freedom suwhere in my household. And
Speaker 1: like again, this is all like this is not me
Speaker 1: doing a great job. It's my fucking parents, but specifically
Speaker 1: my mom doing a great job. Um So, then another
Speaker 1: thing is band shooting at moving vehicles. That's another thing.
Speaker 1: That's a good I think, thanks a bear Sellary, that'd
Speaker 1: be nice. You don't shoot me as I'm walking a lane,
Speaker 1: Require use of force, continuum. Some of these things I
Speaker 1: don't even know what they are, and I have to
Speaker 1: look at and require comprehensive reporting each time an officer
Speaker 1: uses forces or threatens to do so. Yeah, because you
Speaker 1: know police officers hate that paperwork. Oh and we also
Speaker 1: know that the body cam magically likes to go off
Speaker 1: when I pushed the black Then I guess every police officer,
Speaker 1: since we give them so much fucking money, should have
Speaker 1: to bodycams in case the first bodycam doesn't work. Just
Speaker 1: like a fucking parachute, you have a backup parachute, just
Speaker 1: like you have a fucking spare tire in the back
Speaker 1: of your trunk. I guess everyone needs to bodycams now
Speaker 1: because he seems to not be working a lot. It
Speaker 1: seems all all fund to second body cam for all
Speaker 1: you fucking assholes. So Charnalisab I lost that daughter. You
Speaker 1: I'm so fucking mad. I'm so fucking I'm so fucking exhausted. Like,
Speaker 1: and so someone had the audacity to be like, why
Speaker 1: did you someone knows so one who was in black
Speaker 1: the audacity to send me a comment that was just
Speaker 1: like I watched that police brutality video. Now I couldn't sleep, bitch.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't be sleeping. You should sleek up. Oh you
Speaker 1: couldn't sweep with a white gl This is your alarm.
Speaker 1: This is hey, boo boo, join us? Please won't you
Speaker 1: join us in this movement? Here? Follow a fucking black
Speaker 1: person on on Instagram. Great job everyone, Yeah, yeah, if
Speaker 1: you but seriously, like that's that's a great way to
Speaker 1: start a great way into social media age. And it
Speaker 1: kind of this is going by the John Ronson school
Speaker 1: of like following people with different political views than you.
Speaker 1: If you're looking through your Instagram and go, everyone's white.
Speaker 1: I follow a lot of white people. Just fucking introduce yourself.
Speaker 1: Take thirty minutes, because your on Instagram much anyway, introduce yourself.
Speaker 1: So five you black, here, here's something you could do
Speaker 1: because Kurt and I there have been so many uh,
Speaker 1: black voices that are that that are leaders of movements,
Speaker 1: that are business owners that are all these things that
Speaker 1: we should be supporting and raising up and listening to. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you go on Karn's is at Philanthropy, gal Minds
Speaker 1: at Christine a Huch, if you go on who We're following,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it organizes it by the like.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna make a whole. I'm gonna create a hole.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna safe story is lazy. Yeah, so much great
Speaker 1: content between us, um, you know, through this past week,
Speaker 1: and I don't want these resources to just kind of
Speaker 1: slip out because as Leo said in his message, he's like,
Speaker 1: we don't want to be so loud for a week
Speaker 1: and then everyone fucking forget about it. Never mind, because
Speaker 1: you know, police officers been killing black people for a
Speaker 1: long time. It's kind of it's kind of their niche area.
Speaker 1: Uh So we're gonna I'll make a story that will
Speaker 1: probably be called BLM because you have to have a
Speaker 1: really short thing in here, um and and that will
Speaker 1: it or whatever in my safe in my safe stories,
Speaker 1: because there's so much great content that people took the
Speaker 1: time to make and to organize and again to hold
Speaker 1: white people's hands through this all. And Wow, they didn't
Speaker 1: need to do that. So it was nice that they
Speaker 1: let us know how to help. And yeah, like just interesting.
Speaker 1: When I say introduce yourself to five new black people,
Speaker 1: I don't mean to start deeming I mean black people
Speaker 1: and saying what can I do to help? I mean
Speaker 1: entertainers voices in the in black movement, and don't bother them.
Speaker 1: It is not their job, but it's not or burden.
Speaker 1: If you have questions, ask ask a white friend who
Speaker 1: seems smarter than you or another person. Don't, don't, don't.
Speaker 1: Black people don't want to be asked like what can
Speaker 1: I do to help? It's way too little, too late,
Speaker 1: And it's nice that you haven't honestly punched into face. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: honestly thankful. Yeah, I'll answer your d M as patiently
Speaker 1: as I can. I will, I will, I will answer them.
Speaker 1: Email us sorry about this night show at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1: We will have these conversations with you. We have done
Speaker 1: extensive research and I'm happy to add to the conversation.
Speaker 1: I am by no means the authority or the perfect voice,
Speaker 1: but I will do everything in my power to get
Speaker 1: you the resources that you might need. But also too,
Speaker 1: it's important to note to to be open. If you
Speaker 1: are a white person, it is is it is important
Speaker 1: to to be open to the fact that maybe some
Speaker 1: of your viewpoints are derogatory or some viewpoints are kindescending,
Speaker 1: and you might not be aware of it. That's not
Speaker 1: saying when a person critiques you on that that's not
Speaker 1: like you meant to hurt me. That's not what they're saying.
Speaker 1: That's not what that person is saying. But just just
Speaker 1: open your heart and listen. I think you know we've
Speaker 1: been doing a lot of yelling on this episode, but
Speaker 1: I really, I really want to remind you that we
Speaker 1: are perform is perfect, and it takes practice to do anything,
Speaker 1: and so being an ally to the black community and
Speaker 1: the best way that we can be might take a
Speaker 1: little practice for some of us. That's okay. I'm willing
Speaker 1: to hold your hand and I'm willing to answer We're
Speaker 1: we're willing to answer your questions and let's figure this
Speaker 1: out and let's be it. Let's be a peaceful fucking world.
Speaker 1: Yeah and nods, And certainly check in on your black
Speaker 1: friends or black colleagues, be like, hey, how are you
Speaker 1: doing today? Not not? What can I do to help?
Speaker 1: How can I be better? How are you doing. This
Speaker 1: must be a difficult time for you. How are you doing?
Speaker 1: Is there anything I can do to lighten your load?
Speaker 1: Like in your personal life? Can I fucking can I
Speaker 1: babysit your kid? I mean, I don't know what you
Speaker 1: want to do something? Yeah, well fucking offer that one
Speaker 1: email from that that woman who was like, yeah, my
Speaker 1: white bet, she's been my best friend and she never talked?
Speaker 1: What what? How? How to suppot wating that that woman
Speaker 1: must be It's so heartbreaking and disappointing. And so so
Speaker 1: if you are that white friend, reach out and and
Speaker 1: put your friends feelings for It's just you know, we
Speaker 1: we all have it in us to be great human
Speaker 1: beings and compassionate and and giving and uh and let's
Speaker 1: start exercising that. And let's take the time to take
Speaker 1: a breath and answer thoughtfully and ask thoughtful questions and
Speaker 1: um yeah yeah. And I'll say like little things like
Speaker 1: maybe for you know, uh, supporting black businesses. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna get someone a book, maybe like oh maybe like
Speaker 1: get a little creative like, oh I can get a book.
Speaker 1: I'm no longer talking to white people about race, So
Speaker 1: book about race. Get just if you don't want a
Speaker 1: bookbout race, you get a book by a black author,
Speaker 1: just like it's just like revealing your show. Your just
Speaker 1: just exposed. I was like, really yourself, no, expose yourself
Speaker 1: to other points of view because unfortunately, um, the American
Speaker 1: school system has mostly failed us. And I think of
Speaker 1: the books you read, I'm like, I only I'm like,
Speaker 1: if they think of the sex education and then you go, oh,
Speaker 1: was the history of the of black people in America
Speaker 1: portrayed accurately in public education? Is not? They don't tell you,
Speaker 1: Jack should that. The only thing they'll do is they'll
Speaker 1: hand you copy of I Know Why the Cage Bird
Speaker 1: Sings by Maya Angelou and then they'll pat themselves on
Speaker 1: the back like they fucking just we're you know, Lincin
Speaker 1: abolishing slavery. And then also he was pressed into doing that.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, if you even look into while
Speaker 1: at the boish slavery, it wasn't because he did. You know,
Speaker 1: it's fucked up, guys, ships sucked up, and let's make
Speaker 1: a system that's not sucked up. And then after all
Speaker 1: this yelling, we do want to say, um, and we
Speaker 1: said it on social media. But while we were marching
Speaker 1: with Black Lives Matter in New York City. We did
Speaker 1: have a lot of fuckers come up to us, and
Speaker 1: for all the ship we give you and for all
Speaker 1: and we're hard on you because we love you, and
Speaker 1: we know that you have it in yourselves, and we
Speaker 1: know that we have it in ourselves to be better people.
Speaker 1: And I think you've seen us turn into better people
Speaker 1: throughout the pot And let it be known that I
Speaker 1: in my life Christina reaction, I've had to talking to
Speaker 1: from from friends, from every from about everything under the
Speaker 1: goddamn son. Of course, no one is perfect but we
Speaker 1: But you have a duty to yourselves and the future
Speaker 1: of your families and everything you care about. If you
Speaker 1: want to fight for a cause that's bigger than yourself,
Speaker 1: what better cause than to be lifting up black lives
Speaker 1: right now in a country that was that that had
Speaker 1: systems made against them, Like why would you why would
Speaker 1: you want to live in a place where like you're
Speaker 1: treated well but only because other people are treated shitty.
Speaker 1: It's like, if you're so great, it'll shine anyway, Yeah
Speaker 1: you will, yeah, And if you won't shine, then you
Speaker 1: weren't that great. And you have work to do in
Speaker 1: yourself so I don't know what to tell you, and
Speaker 1: it's okay, but do the work and you can focuss.
Speaker 1: And when someone says something to you, especially a black person,
Speaker 1: don't say but what about me? But what about? But
Speaker 1: about this group? But what about animals? But what about
Speaker 1: just stop just shocked? And and no one's no one's
Speaker 1: saying animals deserve bad treatment. But we're focusing on black
Speaker 1: people right now. God a focus so we can get
Speaker 1: We're focusing on a system that is better for everyone.
Speaker 1: We gotta get some ship done. Anyway, thanks for listening, Store,
Speaker 1: and I was like, we we Christine and I put
Speaker 1: more work into this episode. We just sat here all
Speaker 1: day being like, what the fun relieve ye banking say yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. Thank you for listening, guys, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: And to all of our listeners who wrote us emails
Speaker 1: that we we that you were uh gracious enough to
Speaker 1: let us read, Thank you so much for taking the
Speaker 1: energy and time into doing that when you didn't have to.
Speaker 1: Didn't have to. We have the opportunity to change the world.
Speaker 1: Everybody listening to this, and I would love if everybody
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Speaker 1: do that, and it is capable and change as possible,
Speaker 1: and we're going to make it happen. And as always,
Speaker 1: we're all pieces of ship. Christine and I are included
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